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Leon County

Use suspended · 2 agencies documented

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Leon County Sheriff's Office

Status
Use suspended
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
Count not documented
No agency total found. WFSU reported 116 Flock cameras operating around Leon County (Aug. 2026, all agencies).
  1. July 14, 2026 Leon County commissioners delayed action on a $1.6 million state Homeland Security grant to the sheriff's office that included expansion of Flock license plate reader technology, after nearly two hours of public comment. (WTXL ABC 27, July 14, 2026)
  2. July 17, 2026 WCTV reported commissioners held off on about $400,000 of the grant meant to expand Flock cameras into Wakulla, Jefferson, Liberty and Taylor counties. (The article describes this as both "rejected" and tabled.) No later vote found. (WCTV, July 17, 2026)
  3. Aug. 26, 2026 Launched a Flock transparency portal (transparency.flocksafety.com/leon-county-fl-so). The portal could not be loaded for this check. (WFSU Public Media, Aug. 26, 2026)
  4. Sept. 1, 2026 Sheriff Walt McNeil suspended Flock use "until additional oversight and accountability measures are established" and asked accreditation bodies to set audit and public-reporting standards. (WFSU Public Media, Sept. 1, 2026; WFSU Public Media, Sept. 1, 2026)

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Tallahassee Police Department

Status
Use suspended
Vendors
Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions
Cameras
150
150 ALPR cameras citywide (Flock and Motorola) per WCTV, Sept. 9, 2026; WTXL reported 80 Flock cameras per the department's transparency portal (Sept. 4, 2026). The two counts may cover different systems.
  1. Dec. 2025 City Commission motion passed 5-0 for a briefing on Flock cameras. Chief Lawrence Revell said the cameras were provided to TPD for free, tied to a plan to link them to the school-zone camera system. (WCTV, Dec. 16, 2025)
  2. Aug. 26, 2026 Launched a Flock transparency portal (transparency.flocksafety.com/tallahassee-fl-pd). The portal could not be loaded for this check. (WFSU Public Media, Aug. 26, 2026)
  3. Aug. 27, 2026 City Commission declined Commissioner Jeremy Matlow's motion to ban and remove Flock cameras; Commissioners Dianne Williams-Cox and Curtis Richardson and Mayor John Dailey voted against removal. The commission voted unanimously to hold a town hall. (WFSU Public Media, Aug. 27, 2026)
  4. Sept. 1, 2026 TPD said it would comply with the FDOT directive for cameras on state rights-of-way; it did not say it would stop using cameras on city roads. (WFSU Public Media, Sept. 1, 2026)
  5. Sept. 9, 2026 City Commission voted unanimously to suspend all 150 ALPR cameras in the city. Matlow's substitute motion to "bag all the cameras starting tomorrow" failed 3-2 (individual votes not reported). (WCTV, Sept. 9, 2026; WTXL ABC 27, Sept. 4, 2026)

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Statewide

  1. Aug. 31, 2026 The Florida Department of Transportation revoked permits and ordered all automated license-plate readers off state roads within 30 days. Gov. Ron DeSantis: "I don't want to have this become a surveillance state." (Axios Tampa Bay, Sept. 1, 2026; WUSF, Sept. 2, 2026)
  2. Sept. 30, 2026 The 30-day deadline for removing license-plate readers from state roads passed. (Florida Phoenix, Sept. 30, 2026)