Flock cameras
are going dark.

Per DeFlock's cancellation tracker (Aug 2026), across 27+ states: 44 contract cancellations, 20 contract rejections, 22 cameras deactivated/removed, 11 paused, and 1 outright ALPR ban (Ypsilanti, MI) — plus Surprise, AZ (Aug 18, 2026), which pulled its contract after an officer misuse investigation, one of an Arizona wave of misuse-driven cancellations that also includes Chandler (ended its $153,000 contract and disabled 40 cameras after an officer resigned over misuse, mid-Aug) and Pinal County (Sheriff Ross Teeple declined to renew the department's contract Aug 5, citing "serious Fourth Amendment concerns," effective Sept 29 — Apache Junction and Goodyear are still investigating their own officers rather than cancelling) — a Rhode Island cancellation wave following ACLU pressure: South Kingstown (Jul 27), Narragansett (Aug 3, unanimous), and Glocester (Aug 6, 4-1) — Harrisonburg, VA (Jul 29, unanimous 4-0, system went dark Aug 1) — Gardner, KS (Aug 18, declined to renew) — Auburn, NY (Aug 21, unanimous vote to terminate) — Marietta, OK (Aug 20, council cancelled after learning Flock retains data indefinitely despite a 30-day policy) — an Arkansas wave of at least seven cities/counties (Pea Ridge, Mayflower, Centerton, Greers Ferry, Cabot, Searcy, Farmington) ending or suspending Flock use since late July over cost and data-retention concerns — a Minnesota wave beyond the vandalism-hit cities (Sherburne County, West St. Paul, North Branch, Columbia Heights) — Hopkinton, MA (Aug 20, terminated after a legal review found the contract violated state procurement law) — Willard, MO and Pulaski County, MO (both non-renewals announced Aug 20-21) — Lynchburg, VA and Newtown, CT (both paused pending policy review, Aug 19 & 21) — Greer, SC (Aug 21, suspended 90 days after two officers were fired for misusing the system) — Fort Mitchell, KY (Aug 18, ended over privacy/data-security concerns) — Hood County, TX (Aug 19, terminated its agreement and physically covered its 3 cameras) — Oxford, OH (Aug 19, council voted 6-1 to terminate) — Winston, OR (Aug 20, ended amid privacy concerns and budget cuts) — Stanford University, CA (switched its campus PD to a city-owned Genetec system) — East Bridgewater, MA and Grafton, MA (both Aug 21, citing resident privacy concerns and, in Grafton's case, vandalism/theft of the devices) — St. Charles County, MO (Aug 20, discontinued after a civilian employee's "egregious misuse" of search data for personal reasons) — Louisiana, MO (Aug 21, took its cameras dark pending a public hearing on a proposed oversight ordinance) — Santa Barbara, CA, which let its Flock contract lapse (Aug 23) for a city-owned Verkada system — Cortland, IL (Aug 21, mayor directed police to cancel its 5-camera contract over resident privacy concerns, replacing it with in-car readers) — Davidson County, NC (commissioners voted unanimously Aug 24 to remove all 25 sheriff's-office Flock cameras county-wide, ordering them switched off within a day and taken down within 30) — and Asheville, NC, whose city council voted 5-2 Tuesday (Aug 25) to terminate its contract and remove all 11 cameras after Mayor Esther Manheimer pushed for termination — Lansing, MI (Aug 24, council adopted a 7-1 resolution directing the mayor and police to terminate all Flock contracts over civil-liberties concerns) — Fort Wayne, IN (Aug 25, council voted 8-0 not to renew its ~$120,000, 36-camera contract after "hundreds" of residents objected, reversing course from a narrower 5-4 rejection in May) — and Christiansburg, VA (Aug 26, town council voted 6-0 to terminate its Flock contract and remove cameras, with Councilwoman Johana Hicks saying "we don't trust the data collection, we don't trust the system") — Pflugerville, TX (Aug 25, council voted unanimously to end its agreement and disable all 28 cameras after learning 459 outside agencies had run 1.6 million unauthorized searches on its data) — and a Metro Detroit wave beyond the vandalism-hit cities: Clawson, Ferndale, Sumpter Township, and Milford, MI have all separately ended their Flock agreements over data-ownership and access concerns — and a same-day Arizona pair on Aug 26: Tempe, AZ (population ~180,000) shut down and fully deactivated its entire Flock network despite finding no local misuse, saying "the risk of misuse is too great," while neighboring Cave Creek, AZ terminated its contract effective immediately after a camera was stolen, becoming at least the ninth Arizona city or town to drop or restrict Flock in the past year — and Wylie, TX (Aug 27, council voted 7-0 to end its contract when the current agreement expires in October, after DeFlock Wylie organizer Austin Gregory gathered 700+ petition signatures) — none yet reflected in DeFlock's own tally as of last check. Separately, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered all state agencies to halt spending on Flock cameras (Aug 28), after a Texas Tribune investigation found the state's Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority had funneled $30 million+ in grants to build out the network, including a $15.9 million DPS contract for roughly 1,200 cameras — a statewide funding freeze, not a local cancellation, so it isn't counted in the tally below. A fresh round since: Goochland County, VA (Aug 27-28, first Central Virginia agency to drop Flock, citing public pushback with no misuse ever identified) — Lincoln, RI and New Bedford, MA (both paused amid new officer-misuse fallout) — Auburn, ME (cameras deactivated Aug 25, the state's first Flock exit) — North Tonawanda, NY (first Western New York city to pull support, camera removal underway) — and Lincoln County, ID (sheriff dropped the Shoshone cameras Aug 25 after community pushback). One more round to close out August: Ord, NE (Aug 3, council voted 5-0 to remove its two cameras, the first Nebraska city to do so) — Burnet County, TX (Aug 3 memo, sheriff's task force pulled every fixed Flock camera it operated after vandals disabled two of them) — and Putnam County, FL (Aug 31, discontinued its Flock cameras immediately after Florida's Department of Transportation ordered all ALPRs removed from state roads within 30 days, a statewide order from Gov. Ron DeSantis citing "concerning reports of misuse, data privacy concerns and surveillance schemes" — affecting an estimated 700 cameras on state roads only, not counted in the tally below since it's a state-level order rather than a single community's vote) — and, closing out the week: Champlin, MN (Sep 1, pulled every Flock camera offline after vandals struck two sites) and Isanti County, MN (ended its trial by month's end after 2 of 8 camera poles were cut down) — plus a same-day Massachusetts wave: Abington, Ayer, and Groton, MA (all terminated their contracts Sept 1) and Southbridge, MA (paused use pending statewide guardrails, cameras installed earlier in 2026 but never used operationally) — and Menasha, WI (Sept 1, mayor ordered all cameras bagged/disabled and recommended the common council terminate the contract, Wisconsin's first tracked pullback). Newest: a Virginia wave that swept 16 more localities beyond Lynchburg's own upgrade to full termination — since mid-July, Elkton (5-0, Jul 21), Bland County (stopped Jul 11), Floyd County (contract lapsed end of Aug), Giles County (contract expires Oct 16), Halifax County (Aug 28), Henry County, and Martinsville (winding down since May over cost) all ended or let expire their Flock use, followed in three frantic early-September days by Wythe County and Wytheville (Sept 1-2), Charlotte County (paused for public input), Appomattox County and Campbell County (both terminated Sept 2), Dumfries (voted 4-2 to remove 8 cameras before they ever went live, Sept 2), King William County (formal non-renewal notice), and Bedford County and Amherst County (both paused Sept 3, sheriffs citing unexplained "discrepancies" in Flock's vehicle counts) — plus Easton, MA (won't renew past October) and Dayton, MN, whose council voted 5-0 to suspend its entire ALPR program, Flock included, through Dec. 31, 2027, after several cameras were vandalized in mid-August. Newest: St. Paul, MN removed its two city-owned cameras after a unanimous council resolution (Aug 26); North Kingstown, RI voted 3-2 to terminate its 6-camera contract (Aug 19); and Bastrop, TX covered all 12 of its cameras ahead of a Sept. 8 vote, then followed through: the council voted to immediately terminate the contract and bar any future ALPR deal, the 5th Central Texas city to cancel in a month. A Wisconsin data-leak wave broke Sep 4-5: Fond du Lac County (25 cameras) and Winnebago County both shut down their entire Flock networks immediately after discovering that search logs tied to active investigations had leaked out nationwide when other states' agencies filled open-records requests for Flock's shared, cross-state data — Neenah, Fox Crossing, Winneconne, and the UW-Oshkosh PD followed Winnebago's lead — while Sheboygan (a separate dispute: it says Flock tried to sell the city its own captured traffic data back to it) covered its 15 cameras ahead of a Sept. 8 council vote, which passed unanimously. Also newest: Leander, TX's council directed staff to cut Flock funding on Sept. 3, and the department deactivated all 14 cameras the next day, citing privacy and misuse concerns raised by the "DeFlock Leander" group and neighboring Pflugerville's own contract termination. The Wisconsin data-leak fallout kept widening into the weekend: Racine County (Sep 4-5) walked away after Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said Flock had quietly expanded into collecting traffic-volume and speed data beyond what the county agreed to and then tried to sell that data back to it — "this is not what we agreed to" — while Kenosha (announced Sep 3) gave Flock its 30-day cancellation notice and is switching its plate-reader hardware to competitor Axon over undisclosed tracking and data-security concerns, joining Fond du Lac County, Winnebago County, and Sheboygan in the state's pullback. Newest: Robinson, TX's city council voted unanimously Sept. 1 not to renew its 11-camera Flock lease, citing resident privacy concerns raised at a packed public meeting plus Gov. Abbott's state funding freeze — the latest addition to the wider Texas pullback alongside Pflugerville, Wylie, Leander, and Bastrop. Newest: Duluth, MN let its 12-month grant-funded Flock contract lapse Sept. 7 — the state's largest community yet to drop Flock, after 5 cameras were stolen and 1 damaged — and neighboring Shorewood, MN voted to shut off its own camera over data-access concerns. Newest: in Arizona, Payson, AZ ended its Flock contract outright after an administrative review and Cottonwood, AZ suspended its cameras effective Sept. 4 pending a Sept. 22 council vote — Arizona's 10th and 11th communities to drop or restrict Flock; and Elgin, TX paused its 25-camera program Sept. 3 after Police Chief Chris Noble followed Gov. Abbott's statewide funding freeze, pending direction from city council. Newest: a fresh Texas/North Carolina round — Liberty Hill, TX (Williamson County, 7-0, Sept. 9, cameras removed immediately) and Manvel, TX (6-0, Sept. 9, 30-day cancellation notice on its 16 cameras) both ended their Flock contracts, Kendall County, TX (5-0, Sept. 2) voted to shut down its entire 57-camera network over trust concerns despite the DA's warning there's "no replacement," and New Hanover County, NC (4-0, Sept. 8) terminated its 20-camera, $219,000 contract, citing insufficient privacy safeguards and nearly 3 million searches by outside agencies since 2025. Newest: Reynoldsburg, OH ended its 32-camera, $250,000 contract effective immediately Sep 9 after two officers were accused of roughly 100 personal searches; Stoughton, MA cancelled its contract (effective Sep 4, cameras off by Oct 1); and a fresh Midwest pause wave broke Sep 8-11: Lebanon, OH's council bagged all 20 of its cameras after Flock ignored 54 written privacy questions, Waupaca County, WI suspended its network over data-sharing concerns, and Florence and Bellevue, KY both disabled their cameras pending review. Also newest: Englewood, CO's council voted 6-0 Sep 8 to terminate its Flock contract, citing an inability to control how other agencies access captured data, and Cohasset, MA's Select Board voted unanimously Aug 25 to block its Flock contract from automatically renewing. Newest: a Colorado wave — Moffat County Sheriff (Aug 13, contract lapses Dec 31), Steamboat Springs PD (deactivated its 6 cameras Aug 26, data collection ceased Sep 3), Routt County Sheriff (announced Sep 1-2 after an audit found local cameras swept into 8M+ nationwide searches including ~1,300 ICE-flagged ones), and the Town of Hayden (Sep 3, ordered cameras bagged) — plus a Tri-State Ohio/Kentucky cluster: Wyandot County OH (Aug 20, 16 cameras), Pierce Township OH (10 cameras, 8th Tri-State community to cut ties, after 2 vandalism incidents), Coshocton County OH, Hubbard OH (ended its contract outright after thieves stole 4 of its 6 cameras), and — under Kentucky's new House Bill 58 — Edgewood, Fort Thomas, Newport, Independence, Erlanger, and Taylor Mill, KY all paused or ended Flock use, joining Fort Mitchell. Also newest: Bridgewater, VA (Sep 9, council voted unanimously to remove its 5 cameras and barred reinstalling any ALPR tech without a public process first). Newest: Tallahassee, FL's city commission voted 5-0 Sep 9 to immediately suspend its entire ALPR network — 80 Flock and 75 Motorola/Vigilant cameras, ~155 in all — reversing course from a meeting just two weeks earlier where commissioners lacked the votes to act; the suspension is indefinite unless a future commission vote reinstates the program. Also newest: Menasha, WI's common council voted 7-1 Sep 9 to formally terminate its Flock contract, following the mayor's Sep 1 order to bag and disable the cameras, as neighboring Neenah's public-safety committee separately recommended termination the same night. Newest: El Paso, TX's city council voted 8-0 Sep 15 to order removal of all ~150 of its Flock cameras within 60 days and to bar any future ALPR contracts, following the city's earlier halt of camera use under Gov. Abbott's state funding freeze; and, the same night, Wisconsin's data-leak backlash claimed two more cities as Racine's council terminated its Flock contract on a tie-breaking vote by Mayor Cory Mason (30-day phase-out) and Oconomowoc's council voted 5-2 to cancel its contract outright and remove cameras immediately despite roughly $18,000 remaining on the deal. Newest: Arlington County, VA's county board voted Sep 15 to shut down its entire fleet — 26 license plate readers plus 15 pan-tilt-zoom Condor cameras, 41 units in all — and expunge data not tied to active investigations, with removal from public property targeted within 14 business days; the same night, Waukesha, WI's common council dropped a proposed $292,000 line for Flock from its 2027-2030 capital plan, ending the program after 2026 and joining Racine and Oconomowoc as a third SE Wisconsin city to cut ties that evening. Also newest: Neenah, WI's common council voted unanimously Sep 16 to formally end its Flock contract (cameras were already deactivated), following through on the police committee's recommendation two weeks earlier; Itasca County, MN confirmed Sep 15 it has canceled all of its Flock contracts and taken down its roughly dozen ALPR cameras, off since Sep 10; Mount Vernon, OH's council gave a first reading Sep 15 to legislation letting its contract lapse Oct 25 and imposing a 12-month moratorium on new ALPR installations; and Fort Myers Beach, FL's town council voted Sep 9 to terminate its 6-camera contract, paying a $3,000 cancellation fee rather than continue a deal it had no oversight role in monitoring. Newest: Knox County, TN's commission voted unanimously Aug 31 on an emergency ordinance forcing removal of all ~140 Flock cameras used by the sheriff's office within 30 days, after learning cameras had been bought in batches just under the threshold requiring mayoral review; Walker County, AL's commission banned Flock and other ALPRs from county rights-of-way and property Sep 10, giving owners 30 days to remove them; Independence Township, MI (Oakland County) terminated its contract and ordered all 8 of its cameras removed Sep 8; and St. Lucie County, FL revoked permits on 52 previously-authorized cameras and barred any future ALPR permits countywide after discovering 14 more installed with no permit and no known owner, giving camera operators 30 days to remove them before the county disables them. Newest: Oviedo, FL's council directed staff at a Sep 1 work session to stop funding Flock and pull all 8 of its cameras by Sep 30, and Fairfax County, VA's board voted unanimously Sep 15 to pause new Flock installations pending an Oct 20 committee review, though its 84 existing cameras remain active in the meantime. Newest: Marinette, WI's common council voted unanimously Sep 19 to formally cancel its Flock contract, following the mayor's Sep 1 order to bag and disconnect its cameras over data-sharing and access concerns; and Bartlett, IL confirmed Sep 16 that it let its contract lapse on 7 of its 15 Flock cameras, rejecting a $65,500 renewal-plus-expansion proposal and citing concerns about Flock's own corporate data safeguards rather than any local police misuse. Newest: Half Moon Bay, CA's council let its two-year, 16-camera Flock pilot expire Sep 15 rather than renew it — winding the program down by Oct 28 — after sheriff's-office testimony on the cameras' usefulness failed to overcome residents' distrust of the data-sharing.