Another Flock camera town down in Cape Coral as backlash grows 🚨
The short version: Cape Coral reportedly becomes the latest Florida city to pull the plug on Flock Safety cameras as public pushback over ALPR surveillance keeps building.
Our Take
Add Cape Coral to the growing list of towns where residents and officials are asking the obvious question: why are we paying a private company to track every car that passes through our city? WINK News is reporting on the backlash, and if the pattern holds, it's the same story we've seen elsewhere — a quiet rollout, a public records request or a curious council member, and suddenly a lot of uncomfortable answers about who has access to months of driving history on every resident.
What makes these local fights matter is that they're happening one city council meeting at a time, largely under the radar, while Flock's network keeps expanding nationally. Every camera that gets pulled down is proof that this isn't inevitable — it's a policy choice, and policy choices can be reversed when enough people show up and ask hard questions about retention, audits, and who's actually watching the watchers.
Credit to WINK News for keeping local eyes on this. If you want to see how saturated your own area already is, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back at your next council meeting, 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 WINK News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.