Florida state agency responsible for planning, building, and maintaining the state's highways and other transportation infrastructure.
More than 5,000 law enforcement agencies use Flock Safety cameras. The fights that decide how many more get installed are happening in council chambers and a Florida permit office. Opponents in 36 states have already broken cameras themselves.
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Two Republican states moved against automated license plate readers inside three weeks, one revoking permits it had already granted and one cutting off state money, while Flock Safety's cancellation count keeps climbing.
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Chris Larsen gave the SFPD $9.4 million for its real-time crime centre and now says opposition to plate readers has grown huge in two years. Cities are switching cameras off, which makes retention the live term.
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August's cancellations ran roughly 45 times Flock's prior monthly rate, and the objection Los Angeles put in writing was contractual, a clause giving the vendor ownership of the plate data it collects.
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A women's advocacy petition and a 732,000-view video have Ulta publicly defending cameras it says sit in fewer than 1% of its stores. So far the record shows reputational pressure, with no clear commercial cost attached.
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FDOT revoked every active plate-reader permit on state right-of-ways and says it will issue no more, which turned a five-year Flock lease in Oviedo into a seven-month deployment and left neighboring sheriffs disagreeing over what is still allowed.
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Four days earlier, Texas froze the car-insurance fee that paid for at least 3,200 Flock cameras. Neither state needed its legislature, which says something about install bases built on permits and grants.
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Counting monarchs at one Florida site has gone on for more than three decades. Even so, a count still cannot say where any single butterfly went. Solar radio tags light enough to fly on a monarch have now returned the first individual trajectories.
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