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License-plate readers · St. Croix

St. Croix

Using license-plate readers · 2 agencies documented

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River Falls Police Department

Status
Ended or removed
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
9
Nine Flock cameras, per the department's Oct. 2026 announcement.
Contract
Flock Safety: $111,000 term · from 2024 · Four-year contract signed in 2024 worth $111,000 (River Falls Journal); Pierce County Journal described it as about $25,000-30,000 a year, in year two as of Aug. 2026. (Hudson Star-Observer / River Falls Journal, Oct. 13, 2026; Pierce County Journal, Aug. 26, 2026)
  1. Oct. 2026 The department said it would stop using Flock after its own review left it without confidence in how open the company is, how it handles contracts and how well it supports customers. Public Works is to cover the nine cameras, and Chief Gordon Young will ask the City Council to drop Flock funding from the 2027 and 2028 budgets. (The River Falls Journal says the announcement came on a Tuesday; its story is dated Oct. 13, 2026.) (Hudson Star-Observer / River Falls Journal, Oct. 13, 2026; Pierce County Journal, Oct. 14, 2026; WEAU, Oct. 14, 2026)
  2. Oct. 9, 2026 Department disabled external agency data sharing. (Pierce County Journal, Oct. 14, 2026; Hudson Star-Observer / River Falls Journal, Oct. 13, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Council action on the funding resolution not yet found. Pierce County Journal item of Oct. 14 is a department press release. River Falls lies in Pierce and St. Croix counties. Covering of the nine cameras and an end to the contract had not been confirmed in the cited sources.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Hudson Police Department

Status
Using license-plate readers
Vendors
Flock Safety
Cameras
16
16 public Flock cameras, per Hudson Star-Observer, July 29, 2026.
Contract
Flock Safety: period not stated · from 2022 · approved by Hudson City Council (consent agenda), 2022-05-02 · Installed in 2022 with federal grant funding. (Hudson Star-Observer, July 29, 2026)
  1. May 2, 2022 City Council approved police use of Flock cameras on its consent agenda. (Hudson Star-Observer, July 29, 2026)
Conflicts and open questions
  • Department has a public transparency portal. Pierce County Journal (Aug. 2026) reported Hudson shares its Flock data with other departments.

Reported by news outlets; agency records not yet obtained.

Statewide

  1. Aug. 2023 FOX6 reported that the Wisconsin Department of Justice said it does not keep track of Flock cameras, and that Wisconsin had no law setting retention periods for plate-reader data. (FOX6 News Milwaukee, Aug. 2, 2023)
  2. 2025 Lobbying registrations on AB 300 with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission: the ACLU of Wisconsin registered against (6/8/2025); the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association (6/10/2025), the League of Wisconsin Municipalities (6/23/2025) and Flock Group Inc. (7/25/2025) registered in favor; the Wisconsin Grocers Association registered 'other' (6/19/2025). (Wisconsin Ethics Commission (lobbying.wi.gov), date not shown)
  3. 2025 The Wisconsin Examiner, citing OpenSecrets, reported that Flock spent $102,000 on lobbying in Wisconsin in 2025, and that AB 300 and SB 299 did not pass. (Wisconsin Examiner (republished by Urban Milwaukee), Aug. 28, 2026)
  4. May 30, 2025 Senate Bill 299, by Sens. James and Wanggaard, was introduced to create a state grant program (new s. 165.985) for buying automated registration plate reader systems; it was referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, and the Legislature's page shows no later action. (Wisconsin State Legislature, date not shown)
  5. June 6, 2025 Assembly Bill 300, the companion grant-program bill by Rep. Novak and 13 other representatives, was introduced and referred to the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety; the Legislature's page shows no later action. (Wisconsin State Legislature, date not shown)
  6. Aug. 6, 2025 A Wisconsin Examiner analysis of Flock network audit data found that at least 221 Wisconsin law enforcement agencies used Flock from Jan. 1 to May 31, 2025. (Wisconsin Examiner, Aug. 6, 2025)
  7. Sept. 2026 Attorney General Josh Kaul, speaking at a Rotary Club event, called on the Legislature to pass a state law governing how plate readers may be used, including a general bar on selling ALPR data to private companies. (CBS 58 says Tuesday; its story is dated Sept. 8, 2026.) (CBS 58 (WDJT), Sept. 8, 2026)
  8. Sept. 2026 State Rep. Calvin Callahan, chair of the Assembly Committee on Consumer Protection, said government use of Flock cameras should be prohibited unless it comes with warrants, judicial oversight and strict retention limits, and said he would hold a committee hearing on surveillance cameras when the Legislature returns in January. No bill number was cited. (WSAW says the statement came on a Tuesday; the story is dated Sept. 15, 2026.) (WSAW NewsChannel 7, Sept. 15, 2026)
  9. Sept. 2026 Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany said that if elected he would pause state funding for Flock and create a privacy task force; Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, a Democratic candidate for governor, directed county departments to limit Flock use. (Wisconsin Public Radio, Sept. 2, 2026)