📷Florida County Finds 12 Unpermitted Flock Cameras, Owners Vanish

Someone in your city may be running cameras nobody approved

St. Lucie County, Florida found 12 Flock cameras that nobody permitted, then watched most of them disappear. Five were claimed by city law enforcement, and one police department had told officers they could post multiple cameras under a single permit. That guidance was wrong, and it's the kind of confusion that quietly spreads across agencies. If you build or run anything near public safety data, pay attention. Flock didn't answer emailed questions about who operated or removed the cameras. It doesn't disclose individual agency contracts, camera counts, or locations. So a county can't audit a network that's sitting in its own jurisdiction. Your city's contract might be running the same way right now. The numbers are ugly. Port St. Lucie's Flock contract jumped from $22,000 to $470,000 in 2025. Flock estimates about 120,000 law enforcement cameras nationwide, while a cybersecurity researcher says the real network is nearly twice that. Flock has threatened him with legal action for sharing those findings publicly. Worth watching: whether more cities start terminating contracts. Cities were already dropping Flock at a record pace this summer, and this won't slow that down.