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title: "Florida County Gives Owners of 11 Mystery Flock Cameras 30 Days to Take Them Down"
description: "St. Lucie County found 14 unpermitted license-plate cameras; no one has claimed most of them, and one already came down."
author: "rews desk"
published: 2026-10-01T16:49:33Z
modified: 2026-10-02T04:15:29Z
url: https://rews.cc/a/florida-county-gives-owners-of-11-mystery-flock-cameras-30-d-f40b0d
language: en
tags: ["surveillance", "privacy", "police", "flock", "license-plate-readers", "us"]
publisher: "Rews (https://rews.cc)"
---

# Florida County Gives Owners of 11 Mystery Flock Cameras 30 Days to Take Them Down

*St. Lucie County found 14 unpermitted license-plate cameras; no one has claimed most of them, and one already came down.*

By rews desk · October 1, 2026 · https://rews.cc/a/florida-county-gives-owners-of-11-mystery-flock-cameras-30-d-f40b0d

## In brief

- St. Lucie County, Fla., found 14 unpermitted Flock license plate reader cameras; 11 have no identified owner
- The county posted bright red notices giving owners 30 days to remove the cameras; some deadlines run to Oct. 20
- Police are unsure whether the cameras are collecting data; crews will cover them with plastic bags until deadlines pass
- The county separately revoked authorization for 52 previously permitted Flock devices, also giving owners 30 days
- The county says it will contact Flock only if cameras remain up after the deadline

Officials in St. Lucie County, Fla., have found 14 unpermitted Flock automated license plate reader cameras installed along roads, and they do not know who owns most of them, Ars Technica reported on Wednesday, citing The Palm Beach Post. Eleven have no clear owner.

The county is giving the owners, whoever they are, 30 days to remove the cameras. Some of the deadlines run as late as Oct. 20, and the cameras are coming down with seemingly no questions asked, the Post reported. One camera has already been removed, a Post reporter confirmed, after the county’s interim administrator, Mayte Santamaria, said the county had put up “bright red” notices.

Police remain uncertain whether the cameras are actively collecting data. Until the deadlines pass, “staff plan to start placing plastic bags over the cameras,” Erick Gill, a county spokesman, told the Post.

That has not settled matters for residents who pass the cameras every day. Ty Grant, one resident, told the Post that the authorities need to find out who owns them, even the camera that has already come down. “That makes me feel very unsafe,” Mr. Grant said.

Todd Richter, who manages a fishing supply shop across the street from a different camera, told the Post he had no objection to license plate readers as long as it is clear who has access to them. “I’m not happy about it unless I know who it is,” he said, “and I don’t.”

Flock’s cameras sit in [thousands of American communities](https://rews.cc/a/a-map-of-america-s-police-cameras-is-bigger-than-the-company-9432f8), and who watches the footage has become a recurring fight between the company, police departments and the public. The mystery in St. Lucie County is a starker version: cameras that no agency nearby will claim at all. The [county said last month](https://www.wbrc.com/2026/09/18/14-unpermitted-flock-cameras-found-one-florida-county-nobody-is-claiming-them/) that the owners of 52 previously authorized devices there had also received revocation notices, with the same 30-day window to remove them.

County officials appear determined to let the owners retrieve the cameras before investigating who put them up. Mr. Gill told the Post that Flock will be contacted if the 30-day deadline passes and any cameras are still standing.