Flock Safety camera agreement set to end on Fort Myers Beach in Florida
The short version: Fort Myers Beach's town council has told its manager to pull the plug on Flock Safety, a rare case of a local government walking back ALPR surveillance.
Our Take
Credit to Gulf Coast News for flagging this one, because stories about towns walking away from Flock Safety are a lot rarer than stories about towns signing up. Fort Myers Beach's council voting to let its town manager end the agreement is a small but real data point in a fight that usually only moves in one direction: more cameras, more data sharing, more renewals on autopilot.
We don't know yet from the reporting whether this is about cost, performance, privacy concerns, or just bureaucratic housekeeping, and we're not going to guess. What matters is that it shows these contracts aren't permanent fixtures — they're decisions made by a handful of people at a council meeting, and they can be unmade the same way. That's exactly why public pressure and records requests matter before renewal dates sneak by unnoticed.
If you want to see whether your own town has Flock cameras already installed, check our map, and if you'd rather not wait for your council to quietly renew a contract, our take-action page has concrete steps for showing up before the vote happens.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Gulf Coast News, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.