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Hillsborough is home. The network does not stop at the county line. DeFlock Tampa will write a cite-grade page for any Florida city, county, or region that asks, and we will help neighbors use it at their own meetings.
This is not a promise to invent 67 empty pages. A page goes up when a neighbor names a place and gives us a person we can write back. Send whatever you already have. We will pull the clerk record. Same rules: no doxx, no camera interference, no legal advice.
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USA TODAY Flock search logs
Florida in the national compilation
5,658,381Florida searches
243Florida agencies
16,909Florida known users
380,931Hillsborough SO, state #1
National tool: 75,690,410 unique searches, 6,337 agencies, 208,375 known users. Florida Highway Patrol prints 121,214. A search is a lookup. It is not a warrant. Plant City's printed #2 reason is 90Z All Other Offenses. That leftover bucket.
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31 Aug 2026 · FDOT state-road memo
Engineering and Operations Memorandum · Will Watts, P.E., chief operating officer
FDOT revoked existing permits for automated license plate readers that local law enforcement placed in the right-of-way of the State Highway System. It will not issue new ones. Agencies have 30 days to remove the devices. If they do not, FDOT said it will. The department can still pull a unit immediately if it is an immediate safety concern.
The memo is LPR systems on state highway right-of-way. It is not a Flock-only order. It does not cover city streets, county roads, private property, or in-car readers. Friday, DeSantis said he would "clear the state right-of-ways." NBC prints him saying 98% of the cameras sit on private property or local right-of-way. Press also reprints his earlier estimate of about 7,500 Florida readers, most of them local. Tampa city streets are not FDOT.
Brevard Sheriff Wayne Ivey ended BCSO Flock use Monday. Florida Today prints 19 BCSO cameras. He ordered those agency cameras physically removed and cut database access, including private cameras. He called it a pause until the Legislature writes rules. It is a sheriff act. It is not a Brevard County Commission cancel.
By Monday evening, some sheriffs had gone further than the memo. That is press of sheriff statements. It is not a Tampa or Hillsborough clerk packet. Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said his office will stop using license plate readers throughout Duval County, effective immediately. Putnam Sheriff H.D. "Gator" DeLoach ordered all 18 of that county's readers disconnected at once, with removal in 30 days, and said he is canceling the contract until the legislature sets rules. Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood said his agency is shutting the readers down immediately and will not resume without a statewide legal framework. Bradford and Baker sheriffs said they are discontinuing the technology. Clay said it will take readers off Clay County roadways. Hernando said it will meet the FDOT deadline and had already started pulling Flock units from county-maintained right-of-way. Okaloosa said most of its Flock units sit on state right-of-way and that remaining county-road units will come down too. Alachua told vendors to pull 27 affected devices from state roadways in 30 days. Nassau's 34 permitted cameras were already in the morning FDOT coverage. Private poles stay outside the memo. Plant City, Tampa PD, and St. Pete still need a local act.
Oviedo's 8 Flock cameras were off the poles Tuesday morning. Mayor Megan Sladek told WESH they are gone, not just offline. Monday night's council vote still stands. Minutes are not on this page. It is not a Tampa Bay act.
Lake County commissioners voted 5-0 to begin the process of revoking LPR access to county right-of-way. A second vote, 3-2, asks the sheriff to brief the board within a month. That is press (WESH, ClickOrlando). Minutes are not on this page. County right-of-way only. Clermont and Groveland paused their own city networks. Not Tampa Bay.
Sheriff Dennis Lemma suspended Seminole SO Flock use. Orange Sheriff John Mina: state roads only, the rest stay. Osceola Sheriff Chris Blackmon suspended county Flock ALPRs. Those are pauses in press, not clerk cancels. No 48-hour FHP primary was found. The FDOT memo is addressed to local permitholders. This page does not claim an FHP pull.
1 Sep press also names Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford ending ALPR use until the Legislature sets rules, Panama City Beach PD ending Flock access the same day, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz suspending the entire sheriff LPR program plus FDOT-road units, Santa Rosa Sheriff Bob Johnson ending license plate reader use, and Franklin Sheriff A.J. Smith bagging cameras that kept capturing after deactivation. WUSF on 2 Sep quotes a Pasco Sheriff spokesperson on all 70 county and state ROW Flock units. Those are press statements. They are not Tampa Bay clerk packets.
1 Sep press: St. Lucie County Commission voted 3-2 to stop new county ALPR permits and direct staff toward removal on county-controlled right-of-way and property, with a staff update expected 15 Sep (WQCS; CBS12). Official minutes are not on this page. That is beyond FDOT's state-road memo. It is not a sheriff cancel and not a Tampa Bay clerk packet.
8 Sep press: Live Oak City Council voted unanimously to cancel the city Flock contract for eight license plate readers and wants those cameras turned off (Lake City Reporter, 9 Sep). Official minutes are not on this page. It is a council cancel. It is not a Tampa Bay clerk packet.
Same week: Panama City Commissioners voted Tuesday to comply with FDOT's state-road order and terminate the city camera-company contract; bags will cover disabled cameras (WJHG / WECP, Delaney Smith). Press does not give a camera count. Official minutes are not on this page. It is a council terminate. It is not a Tampa Bay clerk packet.
9 Sep press: Fort Myers Beach Town Council authorized the town manager to terminate the town Flock Safety contract and discontinue license plate readers on the Matanzas Pass and Big Carlos Pass bridges (WBBH / Gulf Coast News Now). Press puts six cameras under contract and four operating. Vote tally is not sourced on this page. Official minutes are not on this page. It is a council terminate authorization. It is not a Tampa Bay clerk packet.
14 Sep press: Gadsden County Commissioners voted 4–1 to authorize written notice of non-renewal and termination of the county Flock Safety agreement, effective when the current term expires in October 2026 (WCTV, Julia Miller; Fox49). Press says the commission voted to let the agreement expire next month. Prior sheriff suspend was a pause, not this board act. Official minutes are not on this page. It is a commission non-renew / terminate. It is not a Tampa Bay clerk packet.
15 Sep press: Leon County Commissioners voted unanimously to remove automated license plate readers from county rights-of-way within 30 days and to require future cameras on county property or rights-of-way to get explicit County Commission approval (Fox49; WTXL, Brieanna Smith). Press notes the sheriff had already suspended and then terminated vendor camera use. Same meeting also rejected a school-zone speed camera program; that is not ALPR. Official minutes are not on this page. It is a commission remove order on county ROW plus future approval gate. It is not a Tampa Bay clerk packet.
6 Oct press: Volusia County Council voted 6–0 to approve a one-year moratorium on license plate readers, including Flock cameras, on county right-of-way. It stops use and new installs (WFTV). WKMG says the vote revokes permits for 79 readers on county-maintained roads, and Flock has 30 days to take them down before the county does it at public cost. The sheriff had already switched the readers off after the FDOT memo and asked for a moratorium instead of a ban. Official minutes are not on this page. It is a one-year council moratorium with removal on county roads. It is not a permanent ban and not a Tampa Bay clerk packet.
7 Oct press: St. Johns County commissioners agreed Tuesday to put the sheriff’s Flock cameras on county rights-of-way on their 20 Oct agenda, with public comment and a discussion of whether to permit them (News4JAX). The sheriff wants county-road cameras to stay. Cameras on county roads stay up for now. An agenda item is not a vote.
9 Sep press: Tallahassee City Commission voted unanimously to suspend all 150 ALPR cameras in the city (Flock and Motorola). A bag-all substitute failed 3-2 (WCTV). That is a suspend. A pause is not a pull.
2-3 Sep press adds Flagler, Gainesville, and Palm Beach. Flagler Sheriff Rick Staly suspended Flock use effective immediately and said he will meet FDOT's 30-day state-road removal; FlaglerLive reports other ALPR and investigative tools stay. Gainesville Police Chief Nelson Moya said all Flock-style readers were turned off Thursday afternoon (WCJB). Palm Beach County Commission voted 7-0 to pause new ALPR permits on county right-of-way and ask the sheriff for retention answers; about 83 sheriff readers already up stay unless a later act says otherwise (WLRN). A pause is not a pull. A suspend is not a Hillsborough cancel.
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What we need when you ask
Three things. A person we can write back. The city, county, or stretch of road you want on the site. And anything you already have, even one photo or a story you want checked.
These help us go deeper or stay narrow. They are not a gate:
- The next posted meeting and the clerk agenda link.
- The vendor on the pole or in the contract (Flock, Axon, Vigilant, RedSpeed, or other).
- A contract number, a staff report, or a news story that quotes the department.
- Whether comment is in person, virtual, or both, and any cutoff.
If you only have a photo of a pole, send that too. We will not name a vendor from a photo alone.
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Pages already up
- Plant City (24 Aug presentation; FOX 13; neighbor letters)
- Tampa (Hillsborough petition)
- St. Petersburg
- Pinellas County
- Pasco County
- Manatee County
Product facts that apply anywhere in Florida: ALPRs · Flock · Q&A · School zones.