Neenah, Wisconsin becomes latest city to drop Flock cameras
The short version: Neenah's Common Council voted unanimously to defund its Flock Safety contract, becoming the latest Wisconsin city to walk away from ALPR surveillance.
Our Take
A unanimous vote is a loud statement. When a city council doesn't just quietly let a contract lapse but actively strips the funding, it signals that elected officials heard something from constituents that outweighed the usual pitch about "stopping crime." Credit to WLUK-TV FOX 11 for covering a story that a lot of local outlets skip once the ribbon-cutting footage fades — the harder, less flashy follow-up on whether these systems actually deliver, and who's watching the watchers.
Neenah joins a growing list of towns that signed up for Flock's promises and later decided the tradeoff wasn't worth it: a permanent, searchable log of every car that passes through town, held by a private company, often with murky rules about who can query it and why. These reversals matter because they puncture the narrative that ALPR adoption is inevitable or universally popular. It isn't. Councils can say no, and increasingly, some are.
If you want to see whether your own city or county has quietly installed these cameras, check our map. And if Neenah's unanimous pushback inspires you to raise the issue where you live, our take-action page has concrete steps for getting it on your council's agenda.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WLUK-TV FOX 11, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.