85 Flock Camera Contracts Cancelled

Our Take

Eighty-five cancelled contracts is not a rounding error — it's a trend line. As OrbitReports lays out, these aren't just budget-strapped towns walking away from a line item; the reporting points to LAPD specifically citing civil liberties as the reason for ditching Flock, not price. That distinction matters. When a major department says the problem isn't the invoice, it's the surveillance itself, that's a tacit admission that the privacy risks these networks create are real and hard to defend publicly.

We've said it before: Flock's pitch is that ALPR data is narrow and temporary, but the pattern of adoption — then quiet rollback — tells a different story. Departments sign on fast, communities find out later what's actually being logged, and pushback follows once residents realize their daily movements are being cataloged by private infrastructure with murky retention and sharing practices. Eighty-five cancellations suggest that story is repeating itself across the country, not just in LA.

Credit to OrbitReports for tracking the contract churn, because these reversals rarely get the same press as the original rollout announcements. If you want to see whether a Flock camera is watching your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if your city hasn't had this conversation yet, our take-action page has what you need to start pushing back.