St. Lucie County commissioners pull Flock cameras from all county roads and property

Our Take

Credit to CBS 12 News - WPEC for catching a local government actually doing more than the bare minimum. Florida's state order only yanked Flock cameras off state highways, but St. Lucie County commissioners Lee, Lowry, and Clasby decided county roads and county property shouldn't be exempt from basic privacy protections either. A 3-2 vote, added to the agenda same-day, isn't the tidiest process, but the substance matters: no new ALPR permits or approvals on county-controlled ground.

This is the pattern we keep seeing nationwide — once elected officials actually look at what Flock's network does (warrantless location tracking, data sharing across agencies and states, zero meaningful oversight), support gets shakier. Chair Fowler and Commissioner Townsend voting no is worth watching too; that's the fault line in almost every one of these fights, between officials who trust vendor promises and officials who read the fine print.

St. Lucie joins a growing list of counties pushing back harder than state mandates require. If you want to see whether your own county roads are still wired up, check our camera map, and if you'd rather not wait for a surprise agenda item to save your privacy, our take-action page has the tools to push your own commissioners.