{"id":415057,"date":"2026-09-30T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415057\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:18:08","slug":"northeast-florida-agencies-working-to-remove-flock-cameras-license-plate-readers-by-end-of-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415057\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Florida agencies working to remove Flock cameras, license plate readers by end of Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Northeast Florida law enforcement agencies are required by the Florida Department of Transportation to remove all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/Flock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/topic\/Flock\/\">Flock cameras<\/a> and license plate readers by Wednesday, with local agencies taking different steps to meet the directive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Some agencies are working with the vendor to physically remove the cameras, while others \u2014 including the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office \u2014 have covered them while awaiting removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cWe covered them. They\u2019re covered,\u201d Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to say Flock cameras. I\u2019m going to say LPRs. They\u2019re license plate readers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Waters also questioned why license plate readers remain in use at toll lanes. State officials have said those readers are different from the cameras targeted by the directive, which was intended to address concerns about law enforcement surveillance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook said law enforcement must continue adapting as criminals use increasingly sophisticated technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cI understand that people have concerns. I also believe that some concerns are being manufactured,\u201d Cook said. \u201cAt the end of the day, bad guys have technology. They\u2019re spoofing our phone numbers to commit crime. We have to use technology to fight crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office said roughly 95% of its cameras had been taken down and that it was working with the vendor to remove the remaining 5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The St. Johns County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it began using the cameras nine years ago and has solved several crimes with their help. The agency said it is 100% in compliance with FDOT\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Northeast Florida law enforcement agencies are required by the Florida Department of Transportation to remove&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3487,142043,116,118,117,1872,5902],"class_list":["post-415057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-clay-county","tag-flock","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jso","tag-st-johns-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}