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Florida joins a growing list of cities and states responding to the license plate reader backlash.

Texas may already have around 13,000 Flock surveillance cameras watching its roads, according to crowdsourced estimates from DeFlock. What is more surprising is how many of them were apparently paid for by Texans themselves.

The growing backlash against surveillance companies like Flock may have reached a tipping point. A new survey has found that more Americans oppose these surveillance cameras than support it.

“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Langley said during a recent interview with Fox News. “How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”

In December 2025, a Georgia motorcyclist received a citation with an unusual detail buried in the ticket text: “CAPTURED ON FLOCK CAMERA 31 MM 1 HOLDING PHONE IN LEFT HAND.” No traffic stop. No officer. Just a plate-reader image and an envelope in the mail. Flock Safety spent years telling cities, cops, and the public…

While the public backlash against Flock’s camera technology continues, it seems it’s not damaging the company’s bottom line too much: Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley says that drones are “probably our fastest growing business right now”, accounting for just under half of forward-looking revenue at the last count.

Flock has long pretended to be a simple automated license plate reader (ALPR) company, despite overwhelming evidence that its cameras can track a lot more than that. Now there’s a report that it has been developing new AI tools that can potentially locate people by how they drive