Orange pauses expansion of Flock cameras amid privacy concerns
The short version: Orange, Connecticut's Board of Selectmen voted 5-1 to freeze further Flock ALPR expansion while officials rethink privacy safeguards.
Our Take
A 5-1 vote to hit pause isn't a ban, but it's a rare moment where elected officials openly admit they don't fully understand what they signed up for. Credit to CT Insider for capturing that shift — a small-town Board of Selectmen deciding that "just add more cameras" isn't a policy, it's a habit towns fall into without asking who's watching the watchers.
What's notable here is the trigger: state-level scrutiny is now filtering down and giving local boards cover to slow down. That's exactly how this fight tends to move — not through one dramatic ruling, but through small towns like Orange deciding to ask harder questions about retention, access logs, and whether an outside company should have this much insight into everyone's daily movements before they sign the next invoice.
Pausing expansion while a contract already exists still means plates are being logged right now. If you're in Orange or anywhere nearby, check our camera map to see what's already deployed, and use our take-action resources to push your own town toward real oversight before the next contract renewal shows up on an agenda nobody reads closely.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of CT Insider, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.