Two programs. One street. Different pipes.

Hillsborough school-zone speed cameras are a ticket program. The vendor is RedSpeed. The Sheriff runs it as Operation Safe Passage. Official pages say the pole measures speed and, if you are far enough over the limit (more than 10 mph in the HCSO write-up), starts a $100 civil penalty that HCSO reviews. Notices are mailed through the vendor.

Plant City's 2024 and 2025 Flock votes are a different contract. Those poles are ALPRs: they read plates on cars that simply drive by. Florida law bars ALPRs from issuing a traffic ticket. They are not the school-zone ticket machine.

A plate photo printed on a speeding ticket is evidence of that ticket. It is not, by itself, a nationwide searchable Flock network. The follow-up is whether anyone turned on a second pipe that does feed a search grid.

City of Tampa piggybacked the county RedSpeed contract. Tampa staff later said those cameras will not incorporate ALPR and will not push images to Flock. New Port Richey has a planned RedSpeed red-light and school-zone program; the chief said license-plate reading would be part of both, hoped for October. That is planned, not a completed fact on this page.

HCSO, Cameras in School Zones · HCSO red-light cameras (a separate RedSpeed program) · s. 316.0777 (ALPRs may not issue a NOV or UTC) · GovTech / Tampa · Tampa Bay 28 on NPR / Pasco.

The pole records speed and video. That file is sent over the internet, often through a cellular modem on the pole, to the vendor's computers. It is not a closed TV line into the station lobby. Staff later log into the vendor website to review tickets. HCSO's own pages describe HCSO review and a vendor-mailed notice. The public citation portal used with this vendor is a company site, not a precinct TV.

Florida § 316.1896(15) says a speed detection system in a school zone may not be used for remote surveillance. Recorded video and photos from that system may be used to document the speed offense (and incidental liability the statute names). The same subsection says those speed-system records must be destroyed within 90 days after final disposition of the recorded event. That 90-day rule is for speed-detection records. It is not Florida's ALPR cap, and this page does not treat it as a verified Hillsborough day-to-day practice beyond the statute text.

Tampa staff have said they keep video only if there is a violation, and have described a 30-day purge of video not tied to a citation. Those are staff statements. Put them next to the contract.

s. 316.1896 (2025) · GovTech / Tampa staff · vendor portal named in public materials: secure.speedviolation.com.

RedSpeed's 2024 pitch to HCSO advertised Flock ALPR included in the RedSpeed price. A Flock letter in that packet said RedSpeed would send a live video stream (the vendor named it RTSP, which is a standard way to send live video) from the speed camera to Flock's cloud. Flock said that turns the speed camera into an ALPR other agencies can search, and plots it on the Flock map. The same packet advertised lane-specific HD video and the ability to live-stream from all cameras.

That is what the proposal and the letter said. This page does not give anyone instructions to intercept a stream. It does not assert that HCSO turned that Wing layer on. Official HCSO school-zone pages describe enforcement capture, not a Flock search grid.

Orange County's 2026 RedSpeed vote drew the same warning in the Orlando Sentinel: RedSpeed proposals to other Florida governments sell integration with Flock's national databases. Tampa required a sworn affidavit after that language showed up.

Tampa Monitor · Footnote4a · GovTech · Orlando Sentinel, 16 Jul 2026.

If a live copy leaves the pole for a second company's computers, the city is no longer the sole holder. Sharing settings and stolen logins then work from anywhere. If the stream is live, it is not just a ticket photo. It is a view of the street, including the school drop-off line.

That is a records problem even when nobody "hacks" anything. It is also why "no Flock hardware" does not close the item. The copy can still sit on a vendor cloud, and a search layer can still be added later.

Documented Flock LPR hardware issues, at a high level only: NVD recorded CVE-2025-59403, unauthenticated admin functions on some Flock LPR devices. Researchers later described some live feeds left open on the public internet. Flock acknowledged limited localized vulnerabilities and submitted issues to MITRE/NVD. Those findings are about Flock's own cameras, not a proof that every RedSpeed pole has the same hole. They are here because the 2024 pitch was to feed those poles into Flock. This page does not describe how anyone would reach a device.

NVD: CVE-2025-59403 · 404 Media.

If they only say it isn't Flock, they have not answered. Read one of these into the record.

1. Where does each video file go after the pole (company name, where the servers sit)?
2. Who besides this agency can search it?
3. Is any live view on, even for staff?
4. Is any ALPR or hot-list software on, Flock or not?
5. How many days for a non-ticket drive-by versus a ticket? The statute's 90 days after final disposition is for speed-system records, not a substitute for the live setting.
6. Who reviews search or review logs, and will summaries be public?
7. Put the contract and the affidavit in the same packet so we can see if they match.
8. Will this city notice a town hall on ALPRs and school-zone cameras, with the vendor in the chair, not a three-minute presentation? See If it is so safe, why is it quiet?

The Plant City Observer recap of the 10 Aug 2026 meeting names public comment on Flock (suspend contracts, stop expansion, privacy). It does not quote staff saying school-zone cameras aren't Flock. Official minutes of that meeting are on the 24 Aug consent as item 26-384. They were not independently posted on the clerk page as of 23 Aug 2026. This site did not delete that quote. It was never found in a primary.

If you raise school zones, stay on the record: name the vendor, name the contract, and ask whether any Plant City school-zone pole feeds Flock. Do not let "those aren't Flock" close the item without a vendor name.

Observer, 13 Aug 2026 · Plant City agendas.