This South Carolina county has banned Flock cameras

Our Take

Credit to WRDW News 12 for covering this one, because a local government saying "no thanks" to Flock Safety doesn't happen nearly often enough. Most county and city councils rubber-stamp these camera contracts after a single pitch from a Flock sales rep promising safer streets. When a board actually stops to ask who's watching the footage, how long it's kept, and who it gets shared with, that's news worth amplifying.

We don't have the full transcript or vote breakdown here, so we're not going to pretend we know every detail of how this county got to "ban." But the fact pattern is familiar: ALPR networks get installed quietly, data gets pooled into shared databases that cross jurisdictional lines, and residents only find out after the cameras are already bolted to the poles. A county willing to reverse course, or block adoption outright, is doing the due diligence that should be standard everywhere.

If you want to know whether your own neighborhood has quietly joined this network, check our camera map to see what's already deployed nearby. And if your local council is weighing a Flock contract right now, don't wait for a ban vote to happen without you in the room — our take-action page has the tools to help you show up and push back before the cameras go up, not after.