County Sheriff Pauses 75-Camera Flock Deployment Amid Privacy Push

Hamilton County Sheriff's Office is pausing its use of 75 Flock license-plate reader cameras, turning off the system and planning to cloak or remove them under the contract to seek stronger privacy guardrails. The move arrives amid public backlash and broader regional and national scrutiny of surveillance tech, with several nearby communities ending their programs and Flock signaling privacy updates like reduced data retention and mandatory misuse detection.