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Mill Valley, California says it has switched off its Flock cameras since Sept. 9 after Flock changed its terms
The City of Mill Valley said in an Oct. 19, 2026 statement that it has suspended its Flock automated license plate reader and live-feed cameras, which have been disabled since Sept. 9, 2026. The city said Flock changed its terms of use midway through the contract, and the revised terms did not give the city binding contractual protections and verifiable technical safeguards over system settings, data access and sharing. Mill Valley says it had already limited retention to 7 days for plate readers and 72 hours for live-feed cameras and disabled Flock's statewide lookup feature. The city is working with Marin County and neighboring cities on a coordinated approach, including alternative vendors, and plans to return to the City Council in February 2027; any proposal to resume would go to the council for public review (City of Mill Valley). The Marin Independent Journal also reported the shutdown Oct. 20.
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