Tampa Bay · Operation Sheepfold
Hillsborough is home.
The Fourth Amendment is not optional.
This is more than a camera system. Flock Safety is a nationwide searchable network plus vehicle records plus AI — not a neighborhood pole that stays in a locked city drawer.
- ~120,000 cameras, 49 states, ~7,000 agencies — Flock-attributed figures in the New York Times, 10 Aug 2026 and contemporaneous Business Insider coverage. Those are vendor/press numbers, not a Hillsborough inventory.
- Each hit is a vehicle record: plate image + vehicle image + make + color + time + camera location. “Vehicle fingerprint” is vendor language for extra visual marks. It is not a published named file on every person.
- Network sharing is an agency setting. A local pole is not a locked city drawer. Whether Plant City, Tampa PD, HCSO, or St. Pete share outward — and with whom — is a public-record question.
- Hotlists. Flock’s LPR policy (30 Jun 2026) describes matches against NCIC, missing-person lists, and “other database or hot list.” Which lists a local agency enables is also a records question.
- OS Investigate (was Nightshift): WIRED, 19 Aug 2026 reconstructed code that searches people and vehicles by movement. No plate, name, or crime required. It can pull case files, 911 logs, and commercial identity records. In testing; Flock did not dispute the capabilities WIRED described; Flock says the tool is separate from the LPR product. Whether any local agency is in that test: unknown.
- Retention is a clock on each scan, not a wipe of “you.” The company’s new default is 7 days (announced 13 Aug 2026). Existing customers keep the older window they already approved unless they switch. A new hit is a new file; it does not keep last Tuesday. Daily driving keeps you in the live window. Evidence Mode freezes a chosen hit. Audit/search logs are kept separately. “Video expires, datapoints live forever” is not on Flock’s public policy.
- Hillsborough at 90 days is unverified here. Florida’s cap under § 316.0778 / R. 1B-24.003 is up to three years. The 90-to-30 news is New Hanover County, N.C., not Hillsborough. Plant City’s, TPD’s, and HCSO’s configured days are unpublished on this site.
DeFlock Tampa is a local civic campaign. It is not legal advice, not a call to interfere with cameras, and not affiliated with Flock Safety.
Plant City — Monday (primary)
24 Aug 2026 · 6:00 PM
City Commission, Nettie Berry Draughon Municipal Building, 302 W Reynolds St. Item 26-388 Flock Camera Presentation under City Manager reports — a presentation, not a vote. Public comment is item 3, three minutes, name + street address. Doors 5:30 PM, north lot only. Same-day 3:30 PM special is budget item 26-383, not Flock.
Full Plant City page — roster, votes, asks →
St. Pete — Thursday (secondary)
27 Aug 2026 · 1:30 PM
Vice Chair Richie Floyd, New Business G-1: referral to Public Services and Infrastructure (or other relevant committee) on the City’s Flock Safety contract and camera use. Official packet: 1:30 PM, Council Chambers, City Hall, 175 5th St N. Open Forum: three minutes, name and address; residents, property owners, business owners, or their employees. A 5:01 PM public hearing the same day is utility rates, not Flock.
Full St. Pete page →
Upcoming Tampa workshops/regulars (27 Aug / 3 Sep) and Hillsborough BOCC (2 Sep): no Flock item verified on those posted agendas as of 23 Aug 2026. Public comment still exists. Do not treat those dates as Flock hearings. Re-check the clerk before you go.
Tampa receipts and meetings →
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Plant City
Votes 2024 and 2025, Monday’s presentation, roster, and four on-the-record asks.
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Tampa
TPD contract line, HCSO Atlas note, RedSpeed is a separate vendor, next meetings marked unknown for Flock.
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St. Petersburg
Floyd referral, 50 cameras, 2024 consent vote as reported, mayor-race claims, DeFlock St. Pete contact.
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Florida records, not FOIA
Florida public records are Chapter 119, Florida Statutes, and Article I, section 24 of the Florida Constitution — not the federal FOIA. Ask for contracts, invoices, sharing settings, audit policies, and staff reports.
s. 316.0777, F.S. makes confidential and exempt: (a) images and data containing or providing personal identifying information obtained through an ALPR; and (b) personal identifying information of an individual in data generated from those images. Do not expect plate images or owner PII in a 119 release. Contracts and dollar figures are a different request.
Speak civilly. Stay on the record. This site does not advise anyone to touch, block, disable, or approach a camera.
Statute text: Florida Senate, s. 316.0777 (2025); Chapter 119; Fla. House staff analysis of § 316.0778 / R. 1B-24.003.