Town Turned Off Flock Cameras. Flock Turned Them Back On 🫨

Our Take

Verified Privacy VPN's reporting on Littleton is a gut-punch that every town council flirting with Flock Safety needs to see. Residents did everything right: they organized, they voted, they killed six cameras in May. Two months later, five were back online — reactivated without so much as a heads-up to the people who'd voted them out. That's not a glitch. That's a company treating a democratic decision as a suggestion.

The bigger story here is the pattern, not just the one town. The same week Littleton got its cameras switched back on quietly, three other communities were cutting ties with Flock entirely, including one that cared enough to pay a penalty just to leave early. When cities are willing to eat a termination fee to get these cameras off their streets, that tells you something about how these contracts are experienced once the honeymoon PR ends — and how hard it can be to actually get out.

If your town has Flock hardware, or you're not sure, check our camera map and start asking your council what the actual off-ramp looks like before you vote yes on anything. Littleton just found out the hard way that 'no' doesn't always stick unless residents keep watching after the vote.