Troy police temporarily shut off the national search feature that lets local Flock camera data interact with the broader nationwide Flock network. According to the Times Union, the feature was paused as city officials continued gathering public feedback, and the City Council also tabled a contract renewal request amid privacy and data-sharing concerns.
Ithaca’s Common Council voted to end the city’s contract with Flock Safety after public backlash and sustained concerns about surveillance, privacy, and data sharing. Local reporting described Ithaca as one of the latest cities to cut ties with the company.
Mountain View’s City Council voted unanimously on February 24 to terminate the city’s contract with Flock Safety. The city said its 30 ALPR cameras had already been turned off since February 2 after an internal audit found that federal and state agencies had accessed Mountain View data in violation of approved city policies.
Coralville removed its Flock cameras one day after the city council voted to end the contract. Local coverage tied the decision to a dispute over Iowa law after the city had originally approved the cameras with a policy that they would not be used to help enforce immigration law.
Flagstaff announced it had received confirmation that all Flock Safety cameras covered by the city’s contract had been physically removed. The city said the council had voted in December 2025 to terminate the contract and that the cameras were immediately turned off and stopped collecting data after that vote.
Staunton announced that its Flock contract was officially terminated as of January 8, 2026. The city said police had initiated the termination process in December 2025 and that, at the time of the announcement, Flock had not yet scheduled removal of the readers.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued El Cajon over allegations that the city illegally shared ALPR data with federal and out-of-state agencies in violation of state law. In January 2026, Bonta said he had filed a motion continuing the case, and that El Cajon had shared ALPR data with over 100 out-of-state law enforcement agencies.
A new class action filed by Gibbs Mura and co-counsel alleges that Flock Safety unlawfully shared millions of Californians’ movements with out-of-state and federal law-enforcement agencies. KTVU reported that the suit says out-of-state agencies searched the San Francisco database more than 1.6 million times in seven months.
In one of the highest-profile constitutional challenges to Flock cameras, a federal judge ruled for Norfolk and against the plaintiffs who argued the city’s Flock system amounted to warrantless dragnet surveillance. Reporting on the decision noted that the plaintiffs planned to appeal after the court held the system was not yet capable of tracking the whole of a person’s movements.