Oviedo City Council to question Flock over license-plate reader program
OVIEDO, Fla. —
Oviedo City Council is weighing whether to keep the city’s eight Flock License-Plate Readers in operation amid growing concerns about who can access the data, how it is stored and how it is being used.
Flock representatives are scheduled to meet with council Monday night during a work session to address those concerns and answer questions about the program’s future.
“To get to the place where we are now, council had given direction to bring a resolution to deactivate Flock cameras,” Oviedo Mayor Megan Sladek said. “I think the balance is heading towards eliminating them.”
Council approved a lease agreement with Flock in September 2025 for eight LPRs. All cameras were installed by February 2026.
But at its Aug. 17 meeting, council started considering whether to end the program after hearing questions about who can access LPR data, search it and use it.
“I think our residents have made it pretty clear that the concerns are so big that we would rather have paid for it and walk away than to continue to have this amount of data be accessible,” Sladek said during the Aug. 17 meeting.
So, council asked Flock to have a direct conversation. That’s set to happen Monday at 5:30 during a work session. A meeting memo said Flock representatives “will appear before City Council to address Council’s concerns and questions regarding the City’s LPR program.”
“If after its discussion with the Flock representatives, City Council desires to deactivate the City’s eight (8) LPR’s, it can direct Staff to not fund the LPR Program in the FY 2026-27 budget,” the memo goes on to say.
WESH 2 has reported on cameras in Oviedo being vandalized or stolen. Police set up a 3D-printed decoy camera, and a 24-year-old man was arrested about a week and a half ago for allegedly smashing it.
A resolution to discontinue the use of the cameras will be considered at a subsequent council meeting on Sept. 10.