Deflock SEminole County

We respectfully demand that our county, and the cities within it, stop all use of Flock Safety ALPR cameras.

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A man sitting in a lawn chair holding a sign in front of an ALPR Flock camera to block it from surveilling passing traffic.

Guilty until proven innocent

Our public roads have been turned into an unprecedented, for-profit surveillance network, and Florida is leading the charge.

Flock Safety—the surveillance company that is literally blanketing the country, and our state, with its unregulated "vehicle-fingerprinting" cameras — is doing so under the promise of increased public safety, based on claims and statistics that have repeatedly been found to be exaggerated or outright fabricated.

It's an age-old story of using public fear for profit, but with a truly dystopian twist: the company's CEO, Garrett Langley, apparently envisions a future America "where crime no longer exists"—and believes the way to achieve that future is through a 24/7, total-surveillance society.

Never mind that surveillance merely puts everyday life under a microscope. It does not address the root causes of crime.

But to blatantly call for a dystopian vision associated with some of the world’s most brutal authoritarian regimes is something we simply haven’t seen before.

Nevertheless, Flock’s formidable marketing machine — powered by hundreds of millions in revenue and venture capital — ensures that one police department after another falls for the pitch, allowing the company's mass-surveillance network to spread across the country.

We should all be able to drive to the doctor’s office, church, or a political rally without being tracked and cataloged by the police. Is that really such a radical idea?

Public park with a Flock Safety ALPR camera facing a playground under a blue canopy, benches, a lamp post, leafless trees, and a truck parked in the background.

The loss of liberty is still hypothetical, right?

Not really.

Flock’s cameras don’t just capture license plates. They identify vehicles using a “vehicle fingerprint” — recording location, time, travel patterns, and more. This data is stored and shared without a warrant, often across jurisdictions, and with virtually no oversight. And despite company claims to the contrary, it is regularly used in ways that violate both public trust and Flock’s own stated policies.

Here are just a few examples:

How is this constitutional?

The short answer: it isn’t. But when has a lack of clear constitutional grounding ever stopped law enforcement from adopting new technology — especially when it expands their power?

Flock’s system collects and stores location data on millions of law-abiding people, without a warrant, probable cause, or individual suspicion. Legal scholars have raised serious Fourth Amendment concerns about this kind of mass surveillance.

On February 5, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that vehicle fingerprinting through pervasive camera surveillance likely violates the Fourth Amendment. The court found that this potential violation constituted a sufficient injury to give plaintiffs standing to sue the City of Norfolk, and it denied the City’s motion to dismiss — both on standing grounds and for failure to state a claim.

What can I do?

1. Join us

As with any grassroots effort, our strength is in numbers and our ability to quickly mobilize when there is a need for swift action. We’ll never share your information with anyone outside our organization.

2. Put pressure on the Seminole County Commissioners and the local city commissioners of Sanford, Altamonte Springs, Oviedo, Winter Springs, Casselberry, Longwood, and Lake Mary.

The Seminole County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) quietly received approval from the Seminole County Board of County Commissioners on May 23, 2023, under a consent agenda to install ALPR cameras on county infrastructure and rights-of-way. This request was presented by SCSO as a one-year trial of 25 Flock cameras at no cost. The trial quickly expanded into a five-year $1.285m contract for 100 Flock cameras throughout Seminole County. There was no public notice and no opportunity for public debate.

Now is the time for you to voice your concern. Email and call your county and city commissioners. Show up at commission meetings to speak during the public comment periods. Letters to the editor, blog posts, comments at the county and city commission meetings and written comments are all effective ways to publicly express your strong opposition to police, government, and private surveillance of our roads and streets.

Voice Your Concerns about ALPRs

Click on the links below to send emails to local elected officials to ask them to end any Flock Safety contracts and to ban all other ALPRs.

  • Seminole County has a contract with Flock Safety for more than 100 ALPR cameras.

    (Email list: bdallari@seminolecountyfl.gov, jzembower@seminolecountyfl.gov, lconstantine@seminolecountyfl.gov, alockhart@seminolecountyfl.gov, aherr@seminolecountyfl.gov)

  • The City of Sanford has dozens of Flock Safety ALPR cameras in city limits.

    (Email List: Mayor.Art.Woodruff@sanfordfl.gov, Sheena.Britton@sanfordfl.gov, Kerry.Wiggins@sanfordfl.gov, Patrick.Austin@sanfordfl.gov, Claudia.Thomas@sanfordfl.gov, Mayor.Art.Woodruff@sanfordfl.gov, Sheena.Britton@sanfordfl.gov, Kerry.Wiggins@sanfordfl.gov, Patrick.Austin@sanfordfl.gov, Claudia.Thomas@sanfordfl.gov)

  • The City of Altamonte Springs has 19 Flock Safety ALPR cameras in city limits along with a memorandum of understanding (MOU) directly with Flock Safety.

    (Email List: pbates@altamonte.org, jturney@altamonte.org, MBrunscheen@altamonte.org, sreece@altamonte.org, BOMalley@altamonte.org)

  • The City of Oviedo has a contract for eight Flock Safety ALPR cameras.

    (Email List: msladek@cityofoviedo.net, nteuchert@cityofoviedo.net, kbritton@cityofoviedo.net, jboddiford@cityofoviedo.net, aott@cityofoviedo.net)

  • The City of Winter Springs has several Flock Safety ALPR cameras in city limits along with another brand of ALPR cameras.

    (Email List: kmccann@winterspringsfl.org, pdiaz@winterspringsfl.org, vbruce@winterspringsfl.org, sbaker@winterspringsfl.org, cresnick@winterspringsfl.org, mcaruso@winterspringsfl.org)

  • The City of Casselberry has a contract for 12 Flock Safety ALPR cameras.

    (Email List: dhenson@casselberry.org, mbusch@casselberry.org, tkirk@casselberry.org, aaramendia@casselberry.org, ndivita@casselberry.org)

  • The City of Longwood has more than five Flock Safety ALPR cameras in city limits.

    (Email List: tboni@longwoodfl.org, ashoemaker@longwoodfl.org, mmcmillan@longwoodfl.org, mmorgan@longwoodfl.org, bsackett@longwoodfl.org)

  • The City of Lake Mary has a contract for Flock Safety ALPR cameras.

    (Email List: clerk@lakemaryfl.com; Contact Commissioners Form)

3. Share this site far and wide

Spreading the word is how we build power. The only way our voices will be heard is if enough people are raising theirs. Talk to friends and family, send them this link, post it on social media, text it to your group chats. Awareness is the first step to action — and without it, nothing changes.

Let’s make this impossible to ignore.

A Flock Safety ALPR camera mounted on a pole with a solar panel, overlooking a busy multi-lane intersection with cars and traffic lights.
“Concerns about public safety will eventually recede, but Big Brother will still be watching.”
— J.D. Tuccille, Reason magazine

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