Coral Springs residents, our city has been blanketed with Flock Safety surveillance cameras, including around public parks like Mullins Park. 

Commissioners approved this funding agreement on November 13, 2025. Half of the project, $500,000, came from a Florida Department of Law Enforcement grant, and the other $500,000 came directly out of city funds, meaning Coral Springs taxpayers personally paid for half of this.

Make no mistake, these are not just license plate readers. Flock cameras detect Bluetooth devices you are carrying while driving. They build a detailed vehicle fingerprint on every single person who passes by, every single day, whether you are suspected of anything or not. Every trip to the grocery store, every school pickup, every visit to a public park is logged, timestamped, and stored in a private company’s database. Yes, you read that right. You are being recorded everywhere you go in Coral Springs, and this data is being sent to and stored in a for profit company’s database.

Flock Safety is a private company valued at $8.4 billion. 96 different individuals have performed over 82,000 searches of Coral Springs residents’ data to date.

And that data is not even secure. Flock left at least 60 cameras across the country accessible to the open internet, allowing anyone with the right knowledge to access live streams and download footage up to 30 days old. This is not a minor technical glitch. This means that the private data of Coral Springs residents, their movements, their routines, their daily lives, was sitting exposed and accessible to anyone who wanted in. We were surveilled by our own city and then left vulnerable to outside actors as well.

Don’t believe how widespread this is? Go to deflock.org right now and type in your zip code. You will see an interactive map showing every known Flock camera location in your area, crowdsourced by volunteers across the country who have documented over 336,000 cameras nationwide. You can see exactly which cameras are watching you on your daily commute, on your way to the park, and in your own neighborhood. This is the reality of what our city signed us up for without asking.

Now let’s talk about the argument for keeping them. We are told these cameras help solve crimes faster. But Coral Springs is consistently ranked among the safest cities in the entire state of Florida. We do not have a crime crisis. We did not have a surge in violent crime that demanded this response. Experts contend that Flock’s claims about solving crimes faster are not easily proved, and crime rates across the country have broadly declined since the pandemic regardless of whether Flock cameras were installed. Even if there were a marginal benefit to crime solving, that does not give our city the right to make the decision to give our data to a private company without our knowledge. Convenience for law enforcement is not a good enough reason to strip an entire community of their privacy.

This was funded by a grant that could have gone to mental health resources, youth programs, traffic safety, or countless other community needs. Instead, our city chose to hand a private surveillance corporation access to our streets and our parks.

Other cities across the country have already woken up to what Flock really is. Mountain View, California voted unanimously to terminate their Flock contract after an internal audit revealed that federal agencies including ICE had accessed resident data through inter-agency sharing, directly violating the city’s own policy. Multiple investigations in 2025 and 2026 found that federal agencies including ICE, Customs and Border Protection, ATF, and Homeland Security Investigations accessed local Flock camera data in communities that had not explicitly authorized it. Since early 2025, more than two dozen cities and counties have canceled or rejected Flock contracts, including Austin TX, Eugene OR, and Denver CO, where the city council rejected a new Flock contract unanimously. An SFPD officer was investigated for using Flock cameras to photograph his wife’s stolen car and post it on social media. These are not hypothetical privacy concerns. This is documented abuse happening right now in cities just like ours. And it can happen here too.

Flock Has Already Been Weaponized Against the People It Claims to Protect

Every time you leave your house in Coral Springs, your privacy is being chipped away. Every drive to the store, every school pickup, every trip to the park gets logged, timestamped, and stored. And the more cameras this city installs, the worse it gets, because each new camera adds another data point to a growing map of your life that someone, somewhere, can pull up with a few keystrokes.

This is not a hypothetical risk. There is now an established, documented pattern of police officers abusing Flock’s database to stalk, harass, and track private citizens, most often women. In Joplin, Missouri, an internal investigation found that a single police officer ran one woman’s license plate nearly 400 times, often entering vague reasons like “DWI” or “Warrants” with no case number attached. In Milwaukee, an officer used Flock more than 170 times over two months to track a woman he was dating and her former partner. In Sedgwick, Kansas, the police chief himself used Flock more than 200 times over four months to stalk his ex-partner and her new boyfriend, even following them in his patrol car. In Orange City, Florida, an officer ran searches on three vehicles repeatedly over seven months, planted a GPS tracker in his ex-girlfriend’s wallet, and showed her footage pulled directly from Flock cameras. He was later charged with stalking. In Braselton, Georgia, the police chief resigned and was arrested after women seeking protective orders accused him of using Flock cameras to follow them and send them maps of their own movements.

An ongoing review by the Institute for Justice has identified at least 20 documented cases nationwide of officers abusing this exact technology this way, with most occurring since 2024. One Florida officer alone queried his ex-girlfriend’s plate at least 69 times. And these are only the cases that were caught. Several of these victims only discovered they were being tracked because they searched their own license plate on a public tool, not because any department flagged the abuse internally. Investigators have stated they believe these documented cases represent only a fraction of what is actually happening.

A system marketed to protect public safety has instead become a tool used by some of the very people sworn to protect us to monitor ex-partners, current partners, and women who simply rejected them. There is no reason to believe Coral Springs is immune to this. The only real protection any city has against this is to never give that power to anyone in the first place.

We are demanding:

Immediate removal of all Flock Safety cameras and termination of future contracts from the City of Coral Springs.

A full public community meeting before any surveillance program is expanded or renewed. 

A public explanation of why this grant money was directed to a private surveillance company rather than community programs.

This is not about being anti-police. This is about the right to move freely in your own city without being tracked by a corporation whose cameras can be hacked, whose data gets shared with federal agencies without authorization, and whose presence was never approved by the people it affects most.

Check the map yourself at deflock.org. Then sign this petition and share it with every Coral Springs resident you know.