New to posting here but have been in the area since 2021 and have witnessed a massive change in LE’s public surveillance investments just in the last year or so. Wanted to share today’s Tally Democrat article reporting on the use of various surveillance cameras in and around Tallahassee.

See also:
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2025/12/12/tallahassee-police-department-confirms-use-of-flock-cameras-license-plate-readers/87721042007/
and
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/crime/2026/04/24/florida-police-used-flock-cameras-to-track-no-kings-protesters/89749947007/

Update from previous Flock, etc posts:
FSU PD, TPD, and LCSO are trying to copy Atlanta’s mass surveillance architecture with the Axon Fuses software in their “Connect Tallahassee” initiative ( connecttallahassee.org/ ). This gives their recently built Real-time Crime Center full or request-only access to privately owned cameras for customers that opt-in. “Integrated” Ring, etc cameras give law enforcement full access at all times. Reminder that their self-stated mission is to “proactively detect criminal activity” stories.opengov.com/tallahasseefl/published/1qWMoDgsQ . This program follows the same concept that failed miserably as a Super Bowl ad www.youtube.com/watch?v=OheUzrXsKrY and created so much public backlash that Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock…

Putting the Minority Report parallels aside and the fact that Flock cameras have been discussed extensively in previous posts (see: www.reddit.com/r/Tallahassee/comments/1t4dbho/genuine_question_about_flock_cameras_not_judging/ ), the county commission is holding a meeting on Tuesday (5/12) at 3pm to go over a report which will guide their expanding of speed zone, flock, and facial recognition tech used by LCSO. See Section 6 of the May 12th agenda: www2.leoncountyfl.gov/coadmin/agenda/view2.ASp?id=15931 . I do not see anything resembling safe-guards against abuse of the systems.

Those of you in Leon County who care about this issue, this meeting may be one of the few chances to speak to the county commission about it. Commisioner Christian Caban has made a post today requesting public feedback on today’s Tally Dem article: www.facebook.com/CommissionerCaban

Check out the “Deflock” website for the current map of the Flock Safety cameras around Tally. I do not encourage or condone the damage of these surveillance systems as destruction or tampering can be charged as felony criminal mishief (FL Statute 806.13).