Fort Collins Cancels Flock Contract 6 to 1, Orders Cameras Removed

Our Take

Credit to Verified Privacy VPN for flagging this one: Fort Collins didn't just let its Flock Safety deal quietly expire, the city council killed it outright on a 6 to 1 vote and ordered the cameras taken down. That's a meaningfully different outcome than most towns get. Plenty of city councils rubber-stamp renewal after renewal because pulling out mid-contract looks messy or because nobody wants to be the vote that 'looks soft on crime.' A lopsided vote to terminate early signals that enough council members decided the surveillance apparatus wasn't worth defending anymore, whatever the sales pitch from Flock originally sounded like.

This matters beyond Fort Collins. Every city that walks away from an ALPR network is proof that these contracts aren't permanent fixtures, they're political decisions that can be unmade when residents and council members actually scrutinize how the cameras are used, who gets access to the data, and whether the promised crime reductions ever materialized. Flock's business model depends on cities assuming the cameras are a done deal once installed. A 6 to 1 cancellation vote says otherwise.

If you want to know whether your own city or county has Flock cameras logging your plate, check the map, and if you're ready to push your local council toward a vote like Fort Collins just took, our take-action page has the tools to get started.