How it worked
Wins are votes, denials, and pauses.
This page is only successful legal deflocking: a board pulled a grant line, staff suspended a system, a council voted to end a contract. Attribute the press. Mark pause versus cancel. Do not treat a pause as a final removal.
DeFlock Tampa is a civic campaign. It is not legal advice. It does not tell anyone to touch, hood, block, or approach a camera. Palm Bay hooding was city staff.
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After about two hours of public comment, the Leon County Commission pulled or denied Flock-specific grant money (about $440,000 for regional ALPRs). Staff said the dollars were pass-through for neighboring counties, not a Leon County camera buy. Other grants in the package were kept. Commissioners said a later workshop would take up regulation.
Headline wording differs: some outlets said “rejects,” others “pull,” “delay,” or “blocks.” What is consistent is a packed chamber and a named motion to strip the Flock line while the rest of the grant moved. This is not a vote that took existing cameras down.
Method: packed chambers; named motion to strip the Flock line.
Tallahassee Democrat, 16 Jul 2026 · FOX49.
City Council directed an investigation. City Manager Matthew Morton and Police Chief Jeff Spears suspended the Flock system after a preliminary review that the vendor may have skipped city permits or installation rules. Press reported cameras taken offline and hooded so residents could see they were not collecting data. Staff said findings go back to Council. Officials had not announced whether the system returns.
This is a staff suspension pending review, not a Council vote to cancel the contract or pull the poles.
Method: council direction plus a staff finding on permits; visible deactivation by the city. Hooding was staff work, not residents.
WFTV, 7 Aug 2026 · FOX 35.
City Council voted unanimously to end the city’s Flock Safety contract and take the remaining license-plate cameras offline. CBS Minnesota reported the Monday vote as canceling and paying off the contract; cameras were already being covered. Local coverage also said the written term could run through the last paid year even after service was shut off, and that staff had already cut data sharing and logins. About 12 cameras were in the program (fixed plus flex units, as reported).
This is a council vote to end service, not a Florida Chapter 119 example. Treat “pay off” as press wording, not as a copy of the invoice.
Method: town hall and work session, then a unanimous vote to terminate service.
CBS Minnesota · MPR News, 9 Jun 2026.
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How it was done (legal only)
Public process. Nothing else.
- Show up and speak. Use the posted public-comment window. State your name and address if the board requires it. Stay inside the posted time limit. Do not invent a rule that is not on that city’s agenda.
- Ask to pull a consent item or strip a grant line. Leon County’s outcome was a named motion on the Flock dollars, not a street action.
- Chapter 119 / public records. Ask for contracts, invoices, sharing settings, audit policies, and permits. Florida public records are Chapter 119, not federal FOIA. Plate images and owner PII are often exempt under s. 316.0777.
- Permitting and right-of-way. Cities can stop poles that were not permitted. Palm Bay’s pause started as a permitting and installation review. County boards sometimes have leverage over right-of-way even when a sheriff holds the program.
- Write the clerk. Written comments to the clerk or the published board inbox are on the record where that city accepts them.
- Do not touch, hood, or approach cameras yourself. Palm Bay hooding was staff. This site does not advise interfering with any camera or investigation.
If a story is only a Facebook post, it is not on this page. Gulfport, FL is not listed: no primary news URL was found that the city actually paused the system.