--- title: Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a... description: Florida's Department of Transportation revoked all licence plate reader permits on state highways, giving agencies 30 days to remove Flock Safety cameras,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/florida-and-texas-both-moved-against-flock-cameras-in-a-single-week-blahsmxvj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week | daily.dev og:description: Florida's Department of Transportation revoked all licence plate reader permits on state highways, giving agencies 30 days to remove Flock Safety cameras,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/florida-and-texas-both-moved-against-flock-cameras-in-a-single-week-blahsmxvj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BLahSMXVJ.png og:image:alt: Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Florida and Texas both moved against Flock cameras in a single week **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Florida's Department of Transportation revoked all licence plate reader permits on state highways, giving agencies 30 days to remove Flock Safety cameras, citing surveillance and misuse concerns. Days earlier Texas governor Greg Abbott froze state funding for the same cameras after a Texas Tribune investigation found a $1 car-insurance fee meant to fight catalytic converter theft had funneled at least $30m into roughly a quarter of the state's 13,000 Flock cameras. Local sheriffs in Jacksonville and other Florida counties went further, dropping the cameras entirely. Nationally, Secure Justice counted 93 cities and counties cancelling Flock contracts in August alone, four times July's rate, alongside a Senate investigation by Josh Hawley and a felony indictment of a Lufkin officer who made over 45,000 searches. Flock says new partnerships still outpace cancellations roughly ten to one. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why did Florida order Flock licence plate reader cameras removed from state highways? Florida's Department of Transportation revoked every existing permit for automated licence plate readers in the right of way of the State Highway System and stopped issuing new ones, citing a recent exponential increase in deployments and concerning reports of misuse, data privacy concerns, and surveillance schemes. Assistant secretary Will Watts signed the one-page memo, giving agencies 30 days to remove cameras or have them taken down. _Anyone tracking surveillance policy shifts can follow developments like Florida's Flock camera ban on daily.dev._ ### How much Texas car insurance fee money went to Flock camera contracts? At least $30m of the roughly $81m raised by a $1-per-policy Texas car insurance fee, originally passed in 2023 to fight catalytic converter theft, has gone to Flock Safety cameras through the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority. The Texas Tribune counted at least 3,200 cameras funded this way, out of roughly 13,000 mapped statewide by the group DeFlock, meaning the fee paid for about one in four. _Developers and policy watchers weighing surveillance tech funding can dig into stories like this on daily.dev._ ### How many US cities and counties have cancelled Flock Safety camera contracts? Secure Justice, an Oakland advocacy group, has counted 214 cities and counties that dropped Flock Safety contracts since 2021, with 93 of those cancellations happening in August alone, roughly four times July's pace and about three per day. Some towns that cancelled, including ones in Illinois, Massachusetts, and Oregon, reported Flock reinstalled the cameras anyway. _Those tracking how quickly public sentiment on surveillance tech shifts can follow it on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras. 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