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Residents urge council to pause Flock Safety camera installations over privacy concerns
Summary
Multiple residents urged Palm Beach Gardens to pause or reject Flock Safety license-plate cameras, raising data-retention, investor ties and potential misuse concerns; the council did not take action on a Flock contract at the meeting.
During the public-comment portion of the meeting, several residents urged the City Council to delay or reject any adoption of Flock Safety license-plate cameras in Palm Beach Gardens.
Denise Bullard told the council that Flock Safety is a privately owned, AI-powered surveillance company with alleged investor ties to major technology firms and that the system 'retains data indefinitely' and could be sold or misused. She said reports show plate-read errors and instances where automated systems produced false matches with serious consequences, and she urged the council to "get Flock out of our city." Brayden Bullard expressed similar privacy concerns and asked the city to pause decisions until other municipalities' experiences and oversight frameworks are clearer.
City staff did not present a contract or formal recommendation on Flock Safety during the recorded segments of the meeting, and no council vote on the cameras occurred that evening. The remarks were entered under public comment and raised issues the council may address in future agenda items or staff reports.
