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Public record · Updated 16.09.2026

Cameras don’t install themselves. Someone voted for them.

Flock Safety sells automated license plate readers to American police. Roughly 100,000 of its cameras now watch about 6,000 communities across 49 states. They photograph every car that passes, log where it was and when, and add it to a database officers can search without a warrant.

None of that happened in secret. Your council approved a contract, in public, at a meeting that was probably not well attended. Don’t Flock keeps that record: who voted, what it costs you, and when it comes up for a vote again.

Check my town What is Flock?

The record, this week Verified · cited
04 Sep UC Berkeley sued over Flock camera records dailycal.org 04 Sep Columbus suspends 66 Flock cameras after officer misuses license plate reader abc6onyourside.com 04 Sep Central Texas city discontinues Flock camera program statesman.com 03 Sep Monroe County ends Flock camera program over constitutional concerns detroitnews.com 03 Sep Leander considers Flock camera contract renewal kxan.com 03 Sep Bastrop covers Flock cameras, considers contract termination texasscorecard.com 03 Sep College Station votes on $400,000 Flock Safety camera renewal thebatt.com 03 Sep North Branch cancels Flock Safety contract isanti-chisagocountystar.com
Next known renewal: Cleveland, Ohio · Dec 29 - in 104 days

The latest entries in the record: contract votes, audits, cancellations. Every row verified against its source and cited. Read the coverage, or send a tip if we’re missing something.

The short version

What these cameras actually do

Every car, not suspects

The camera does not wait for a reason. It photographs all traffic and keeps the record whether or not anyone has done anything wrong.

More than the plate

The system builds a vehicle fingerprint: color, make, model, roof racks, damage, even bumper sticker placement. It can find a car without reading the plate at all.

Shared far beyond your town

Local cameras feed a national network. Audits in city after city have turned up searches by out-of-state and federal agencies the council never agreed to.

Paid for with your money

These are procurement decisions, made with public funds, on renewable contracts. That is also precisely what makes them reversible.

Start here

What is happening in your town?

Enter your city, state or ZIP. You will get the contract status, what it costs, when it comes up for renewal, and how each official voted last time.

46 jurisdictions on file

It is working

Towns are voting these out

More than 80 American communities have cancelled or suspended their contracts, most of them after residents turned up and asked questions at a council meeting. Nothing exotic was required. People read the contract, requested the audit logs, and spoke for two minutes.

Whether you want to stop Flock in your town, or simply block Flock from handing your neighbors’ movements to agencies two states away, that is the route that has actually worked.

How to do it See who has

34 contracts ended, on our record so far
Record set · Contracts

Contracts expire. That is the opening.

A renewal vote is the one moment a council has to justify the cameras in public, and the one moment a resident can still change the outcome.

Record set · Officials

The scorecard

Sorted by what they did, not by party. Opposition and support both cross party lines here, which is exactly why this is winnable.

Michael Polensek
NP · Cleveland, OH
As Public Safety Committee chair, voted for Cleveland's six month Flock contract extension in both the committee and…
Supports
Jasmine Santana
NP · Cleveland, OH
Voted against Cleveland's six month Flock contract extension in July 2026, breaking with council leadership. Surveyed her ward…
Opposes
Rashi Kesarwani
NP · Berkeley, CA
Co-authored an op-ed with three colleagues making the case for renewing Berkeley's Flock contract, co-proposed contract amendments hiking…
Supports
Jeff Holy
R · Cheney, WA
Republican co-sponsor of SB 6002, Washington's statewide ALPR regulation law, working across the aisle with the bill's Democratic…
Opposes
Cecilia Lunaparra
NP · Berkeley, CA
Co-sponsored the mayor's item to reject any contract with Flock Safety and voted against the twelve month ALPR…
Opposes
Adena Ishii
NP · Berkeley, CA
Brought a council item opposing the renewal, approval, or authorization of any contract with Flock Safety, said publicly…
Opposes

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Where to begin

Three ways people use this site

Find out

Look up your town and see the contract, the cost and the vote. Most people have no idea their council approved anything at all.

Check my town

Block Flock

Even where a contract stays in place, sharing settings can be switched off. Learn what to request and what to ask your police chief.

The questions

Stop Flock

Contracts come up for renewal. That vote is public, and it is where more than 80 communities have already ended theirs.

The playbook