[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-florida-orders-flock-cameras-off-highways-texas-cuts-funding":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},5961,"florida-orders-flock-cameras-off-highways-texas-cuts-funding","Florida Orders Flock Cameras Off Highways, Texas Cuts Funding","Florida banned Flock Safety's license plate cameras from highways and Texas froze funding for them, both in the same week.","Flock Safety just lost highway access in two states in the space of a week.\n\nFlorida ordered every agency running Flock's automated license plate readers to pull them off state highways, giving them 30 days to comply. Four days earlier, Texas froze state funding for the same cameras. Both moves came from Republican-led state governments, not from the blue-state privacy advocates who usually lead surveillance pushback. The two decisions landed within a single week of each other.\n\nLicense plate readers have spread across US roads with little public debate, largely treated as routine traffic infrastructure rather than surveillance tools. Two Republican-run states pulling back in the same week suggests the political cover that let camera networks expand quietly is thinner than vendors assumed. For Flock, a company whose business depends on government contracts, losing highway access in two states in one week is a real revenue problem, not a minor policy footnote.\n\nWhether this is the start of a broader retreat or two unrelated fights that happened to collide on the calendar is the thing worth watching next.","[\"surveillance\",\"license plate readers\",\"flock safety\",\"state policy\"]","2026-09-01T15:58:22.000Z","2026-09-01T17:04:27.728Z","2026-09-01T17:04:39.631Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The claims that Flock marketed its cameras on 'crime-solving and stolen-car recovery' and that the states' pushback stems from data-sharing worries aren't in the source material — either cite where these come from or cut them and stick to what the source actually supports.","resolved","policy",[32,33,34,35],"surveillance","license plate readers","flock safety","state policy",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fflorida-texas-flock-cameras-highways-funding-freeze",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,57,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97,102,107],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",3360,"2026-09-01T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",517,"2026-09-01T21:20:00.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":30,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Policy",260,"2026-09-01T18:19:26.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Hardware","hardware",151,"2026-09-01T14:42:22.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",95,"2026-08-18T16:05:00.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Science","science",91,"2026-08-20T10:01:48.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Software","software",73,"2026-08-18T07:51:50.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",69,"2026-08-18T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Startups","startups",52,"2026-08-25T18:55:12.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"General","general",34,"2026-09-01T13:28:43.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]