Marinette Common Council votes 9-0 to cancel its Flock contract
The short version: Marinette's Common Council voted 9-0 to kill its Flock Safety ALPR contract, a rare unanimous local rebuke of automated plate surveillance.
Our Take
Credit to Northwoods Progressive for sitting through a special council meeting and giving us the full roll call — not a highlight reel, not a press release, just nine names voting the same way. That kind of unglamorous documentation is exactly how local surveillance fights actually get won or lost, and it's worth watching in full rather than taking anyone's summary for it.
A 9-0 vote to cancel is notable because it means this wasn't a partisan split or a single holdout council member making noise. Somewhere between signing the contract and this meeting, enough evidence or public pressure piled up that every member of a small-city council decided Flock's cameras weren't worth keeping. That's the pattern we want other towns to see: these contracts aren't permanent, and councils can reverse course once residents start asking hard questions about who accesses the data and why.
If you want to know whether your own community has signed up for this kind of plate-tracking network, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push your council toward a vote like Marinette's, our take-action page has the tools to get started.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Northwoods Progressive, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.