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17 state-highway readers. Not a citywide pull.
1 Sep 2026 · city statement · FDOT compliance
Acting Chief Brett Owen said TPD received FDOT's notice and will fully comply. The 17 ALPRs in State Highway System right-of-way come down within the 30-day deadline. The department did not say whether 17 is every TPD reader or only the state-road portion. The Times previously reported that TPD said it has 25 Flock cameras; that remains a Times account of a department statement, kept here for context. Do not write 17 of 25. City-street readers stay.
TPD says access is limited to investigative personnel with a legitimate law-enforcement need. That is a department claim, not a posted audit. TPD also says that since 2021 ALPRs assisted with 622 arrests, 485 recovered vehicles, 68 recovered firearms, and 14 located missing people. Same rule: department claim, not an independent count.
HCSO Public Relations Coordinator Hannah Oliveto told Florida Politics the office will review all ALPR locations and remove any in FDOT right-of-way. It has not named a count. Axios reported HCSO will comply, with no larger program change indicated.
This is FDOT compliance on state roads. It is not a City Council cancel. It is not a contract end. It is not a citywide Deflock. FOX 13 named Kennedy, the Selmon, and I-275 as the kind of corridors the memo covers. That is reporter framing, not TPD's list of the 17 poles.
City of Tampa, Statement from Acting Chief Brett Owen on FDOT Memo, 1 Sep 2026 · tampa.gov/news · Florida Politics, Jesse Mendoza, 1 Sep 2026 · FOX 13, Ariel Plasencia, 1 Sep 2026 · Axios Tampa Bay, 1 Sep 2026 · News clip
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USA TODAY Flock search logs
City and county · compilation, not a camera count
46,863Tampa PD searches
132Tampa PD known users
1,302Tampa PD unique plates
88%Tampa PD redacted
380,931Hillsborough SO searches
579Hillsborough SO known users
34,407Hillsborough SO unique plates
68%Hillsborough SO redacted
Tampa PD printed top reasons: wanted person 2,154; motor vehicle theft 1,546; drugs 1,223. Hillsborough SO printed top reason is "INVESTIGATION" (49,176). Volunteer map, separate bucket: 89 Flock Safety nodes inside the Tampa city polygon (105 ALPR). Times figure of 25 TPD cameras is a department statement, not this log.
Tampa PD JSON · HCSO JSON · Flock Search History
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What was posted Thursday
Thu 27 Aug 2026 · 9:00 AM · Regular City Council
Old City Hall
315 E. Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33602
The meeting is done. Official agendas are posted. Proposed Regular minutes are posted. They name no Flock action.
- The clock
- Regular session starts at 9:00 AM. A special Community Redevelopment Agency meeting is posted for 10:00 AM the same day. Agenda: tampa.gov/CityCouncil. Watch: tampa.gov/livestream, Spectrum 640 / Frontier 15.
- How to speak
- Show up in person at Old City Hall and speak during the public-comment period. Remote comment had to be registered by 9:00 AM Wednesday 26 Aug 2026 at tampa.gov/PublicComment. That window is closed. Quasi-judicial remote video still needs 48-hour registration: tampa.gov/Quasi.
- The posted fight
- The big item on the public calendar is Rays stadium funding, item 80, as posted by the Tampa Monitor and Florida Politics. The special CRA at 10:00 AM sits on the same day. Re-check the clerk packet before you go.
- Flock is not a titled item
- Official Regular, addendum, and CRA special agendas for 27 Aug have no Flock, ALPR, or license-plate item. Proposed Regular minutes are posted and also name no Flock outcome. Thu 3 Sep draft agenda does not name Flock. That does not take the cameras down. Tampa Police already has a published Flock Safety Group contract. School-zone speed cameras are a separate RedSpeed program.
- Same day, later
- St. Pete's same-day item was a posted Flock referral request. Official outcome unknown. St. Pete page · Pinellas.
- Hillsborough BOCC · 2 Sep
- Do not treat 2 Sep as a Flock hearing unless a posted agenda line says so. Hillsborough's Monday Flock item was Plant City's presentation, covered by FOX 13.
Stadium coverage: Tampa Monitor, 8/27/26 preview · Florida Politics. City notice: tampa.gov/CityCouncil. Proposed 27 Aug minutes: Agenda Online, meeting 2884 minutes. 3 Sep draft: Agenda Online, meeting 2882 agenda.
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Neighbor petition for Hillsborough
Open the petition on Change.org
Brittany Cumbie started this on Change.org the same weekend Plant City neighbors got sample letters. Sign it there. Nine verified signatures as of 30 Aug.
From the petition: We propose a ban on these flock cameras until a comprehensive, publicly-reviewed policy is formulated, ensuring all installations respect personal boundaries, include clear, accessible opt-out procedures, and are not placed in sensitive or private areas.
Plant City neighbors also have sample Commission letters from Joanna MaGrath. Both on the Neighbors page.
Ban flock cameras in Hillsborough County · Plant City sample letters · Plant City page
Figures below are as published. Nothing here is a complete city or county inventory.
Tampa Police · contract 25-X-01691
Through 20 Dec 2026
City of Tampa current-contracts list (December 2025 accessible PDF): 25-X-01691, Police, Automated License Plate Reader, vendor Flock Safety Group, $43,450.00, end date 12/20/2026, marked continuous. That line is a published contract entry, not a camera count.
A later PDF has been seen printed with 12/20/2027. Why the two dates differ is unknown on this page.
The Tampa Bay Times has reported that TPD said it has 25 Flock cameras. That is a newspaper account of a department statement, not a count this site independently verified.
tampa.gov current contracts, Dec 2025.
The cameras on the park and Riverwalk are not a sourced Axon ALPR network. Tampa's published ALPR contract is Flock. Axon ALPRs sourced on this site are Pasco's switch, Pinellas Sheriff, and St. Pete patrol cars. No sourced Axon roadside count for the City of Tampa.
The city's public TIGER camera GIS lists downtown closed-circuit units as Aware Digital long-range PTZ cameras. Records that sit on Curtis Hixon and the river include River and Twiggs (titles 610 and 611, labeled Curtis/Hixon), a park pole at Ashley and Washington, Ashley and Kennedy, the Cass Street Bridge tender house, and Convention Center roof. That CCTV layer last updated 25 January 2016. It is a location ledger, not proof every unit is still live.
A second layer, last updated 7 May 2026, is Tampa Transportation traffic cameras on the same intersections. One Ashley and Kennedy listing is a red-light camera owned by Tampa Police. None of those records name Flock or Axon.
A 24 Aug 2026 Overpass pull on a tight Curtis Hixon bounding box found zero OpenStreetMap nodes tagged Flock. That is not a census. TPD told the Times it has 25 Flock cameras. Their locations are not published on this page. The Tampa Convention Center also posted a 2026 request for qualifications for its own CCTV and LPR work. That is a building job, not the park.
City of Tampa TIGER camera locations (service text: locations only, no live feed). Convention Center RFQ listing: OpenGov 266671.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Atlas of Surveillance lists HCSO as using Flock Safety ALPRs, citing Plant City Observer reporting. Atlas is open-source research, not a sheriff’s inventory. A dollar contract for HCSO Flock is unknown on this page.
Atlas entry FL0290000ALPR.
A public Overpass pull of OpenStreetMap (database timestamp 23 Aug 2026, 04:31 UTC / 12:31 AM ET) on a Tampa bounding box, not the legal city limit, counted 206 nodes tagged manufacturer Flock Safety with ALPR/surveillance tags, after dropping one restaurant named “Flock and Stock.” That is volunteer mapping. Cameras can be missing, duplicated, or mistagged. It is not a government count and should not be read as one.
OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Viewer: deflock.me.
Hillsborough and Tampa school-zone speed detection has been procured as RedSpeed (and earlier programs), not as a Flock ALPR contract. Some RedSpeed proposal language has advertised Flock integration. A Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw memo, as covered by the Tampa Monitor, said TPD will not use RedSpeed as ALPR pushing to Flock. Until a primary public record says a given school-zone pole is a Flock camera, this site will not call it one. RedSpeed remains a RedSpeed program on its face. Receipts: RedSpeed page. Plain language: school-zone cameras.
Tampa Monitor · GovTech.
The Tampa Bay Times survey: Temple Terrace partnered with Vigilant for two license plate readers and does not plan to renew when the contract ends in October. Savings were described as going to a tips app and admin tools. That is a department statement in the Times, not a field count.
Times survey via Yahoo.
Hillsborough ALPR ledger (sourced)
Vendors, not a census
- Tampa PD: Flock (contract 25-X-01691). Times: department said 25 cameras.
- Plant City PD: Flock (commission votes 2024 and 2025). See the Plant City page.
- HCSO: Flock on the EFF Atlas. Dollar contract unpublished here. HCSO did not answer the Times survey.
- Temple Terrace PD: Vigilant, two cameras, not renewing October 2026.
- School-zone speed: RedSpeed (county and Tampa). Staff say those units do not push to Flock. A 2024 RedSpeed proposal to HCSO still advertised Flock ALPR in the price.
Council member Lynn Hurtak has been quoted (Tampa Monitor / Footnote4a) as saying sharing happens only on an open case. Treat that as a council claim on the record, not as a written policy this site has independently verified.
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What to ask if you speak
If you use a general public-comment window, stay on the record. These are the same questions as Plant City, aimed at TPD and HCSO:
- Retention. How many days are plate images and vehicle signatures kept? Who can extend a hold?
- Sharing and hotlists. Which agencies can search TPD or HCSO data? Which hotlists are enabled?
- Audit. Who reviews search logs, and will summaries be posted?
- Dollars. What FY27 line continues 25-X-01691 or expands poles?
- Town hall. Notice a public meeting on ALPRs and school-zone cameras, with the vendor in the chair. See If it is so safe, why is it quiet?
- School-zone brand answer. If staff only say the cameras have no Flock hardware, they have not answered. School zones.
Florida public records are Chapter 119, not federal FOIA. This page does not advise anyone to touch, block, disable, or approach a camera.