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Who's Fighting Back

Dozens of cities and counties have already terminated or rejected Flock Safety contracts. Here's how they did it.

The Most Common Reason: They Found Out How It Was Approved

A recurring pattern across these terminations: the initial contract was structured just under the dollar threshold that would have triggered a mandatory city council vote and public hearing — often around $100,000. By routing the purchase as a routine administrative software tool, departments avoided public scrutiny entirely. The backlash came later, when the contract came up for renewal or expansion and the public learned the program had been running the whole time. Confirmed

Terminated or Rejected Contracts

JurisdictionDateStated ReasonSource
Fort Collins, COJun 2026No surveillance policy; circumvented council approval thresholdsSource ↗
South Portland, MEJun 2026Out-of-state data sharing, federal enforcement access concernsSource ↗
Cleveland, OHJun 2026Safety Committee rejected renewal — no verified efficacy dataSource ↗
Dayton, OHMay 20267,100+ unauthorized queries by external agencies for immigration enforcementSource ↗
El Cerrito, CAMay 2026Discovered federal searches; conflict with sanctuary city protectionsSource ↗
Clawson, MIMay 20263–3 tied council vote after citizen outcry over data controlsSource ↗
Ithaca, NYMar 2026Conflict with sanctuary city policy, unauthorized third-party sharingSource ↗
Mountain View, CAFeb 2026250+ federal agencies accessed one camera without city consentSource ↗
Santa Cruz, CAJan 2026System vulnerabilities enabled ICE access in violation of state lawSource ↗
Los Altos Hills, CAJan 2026Data privacy and federal immigration exposure concernsSource ↗
Flagstaff, AZDec 16, 2025Council rejected a proposed 32-camera expansion 7–0 and terminated the existing contract instead, after months of public pushbackSource ↗
Cambridge, MADec 1, 2025Terminated for cause after Flock installed 2 cameras without the city's knowledge, weeks after a council-ordered shutdownSource ↗
Olympia, WADec 3, 2025Hooded and deactivated all 15 cameras over sanctuary-city status risk after a nearby ICE arrestSource ↗
Eugene & Springfield, ORDec 5, 2025Both cities ended contracts the same evening, citing unresolved data security and privacy vulnerabilitiesSource ↗
Charlottesville & Staunton, VALate 2025 / Jan 2026Terminated over state legislative concerns and public pressure; Staunton's council publicly disputed Flock's CEO on efficacy claimsSource ↗
Redmond, WANov 2025Suspended 24 cameras after a false-arrest injury and after ICE arrests occurred near camera sitesSource ↗
Evanston, ILAug 2025Terminated after Illinois found Flock shared data in violation of state law; Flock then reinstalled cameras without permission, prompting the city to cover them in plastic sheetingSource ↗
Austin, TXJun 2025First major city to cancel after community pressure; audit found 20% of searches lacked proper documentationSource ↗

Partial list — at least 23 jurisdictions have ended, suspended, or rejected Flock contracts since February 2025. New entries are added as they're independently verified. Confirmed

HOA Cameras Get Removed Too

In Lakeway, Texas, the Rough Hollow HOA quietly partnered with the local police chief in 2021 to install eight cameras on both private and public roads. Residents weren't told until the mayor disclosed it publicly months later — the backlash got the cameras removed. ConfirmedIn Forest Brooke, Georgia, an HOA board spent $9,000 on two cameras without consulting homeowners, who later filed formal complaints calling the system "expensive security theater" since residents couldn't even access their own recorded footage. Confirmed

What Actually Works

Across these cases, a few tactics show up repeatedly: filing public records requests for the actual audit logs (not just the contract), showing up in person when a renewal vote is scheduled, and connecting the financial story (federal grants expiring, taxpayer cost increasing) to the privacy story. Cities that terminated contracts almost always did so after a specific, documented violation became public — not from abstract privacy concerns alone.

What You Can Do

  • File a public records request for your local department's Flock contract and audit logs — see Tools
  • Find out if your city council has a Flock contract coming up for renewal
  • Show up to the meeting when it does
  • Share documented cases from this site with your local representatives