FLOCK CAMERAS REJECTED ACROSS U.S.
The short version: A dozen-plus Wisconsin cities and counties yanked Flock Safety contracts after officials learned the company was offering to sell or monetize their own traffic data.
Our Take
Credit to Democrats Deliver HQ for surfacing what looks like a genuine crack in Flock Safety's expansion machine. If the reporting holds up, Racine County's sheriff pulling every camera after learning the company shopped 'anonymized' traffic data to a third party, and Sheboygan's council voting unanimously to walk away, aren't isolated NIMBY moments. They're a sign that once local officials actually read the fine print on these deals, the math on 'it's just for finding stolen cars' stops adding up.
This is the pattern we keep flagging: ALPR contracts get sold to city councils as a narrow public-safety tool, then the underlying business model turns out to be data brokerage at scale, indefinite retention, and access far beyond the police department that signed the check. When elected officials in more than a dozen jurisdictions independently decide to hit pause in the same week, that's not an accident, that's a company whose practices didn't survive contact with scrutiny.
Wisconsin shows this fight isn't hypothetical or partisan — it's about whether a private surveillance vendor gets to quietly monetize the movements of everyone driving through your town. Check our camera map to see what's already installed near you, and if your city is still deciding, use our take-action resources before the contract is signed, not after.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Democrats Deliver HQ, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.