Hey, bags work.
According to the Wisconsin Examiner, the City of Verona, Wisconsin’s Common Council voted in the fall of 2025 not to renew its contract with Flock Safety, letting the contract lapse in December.
However, the cameras remained in place.
Not a big concern, other than eyesore issues, if Flock Safety leaves non-operational cameras out in the wild.
Except that the Mayor, Luke Diaz, believes that the cameras were still operational.
Despite repeated requests to remove the cameras, Flock never did.
So the City of Verona put bags over the cameras. That will stop them from working, and give Flock “garbage data.” (Unless Flock Safety has some super-secret sensor that doesn’t depend upon visual capability.)
That apparently prompted Flock Safety to take the cameras down.
Again, murky issues of ownership. You would think that the cameras would quit operating once the contract ended, but it’s uncertain whether they did.
Mayor Diaz is embittered over the whole affair.
“The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. What they are doing is selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.”
When ANY company readily agrees to give you something for free (something another Wisconsin city discovered), know that you are not the ultimate customer.
And sometimes promises may not be what they seem, as Randy Newman once wrote.
“In America every man is free”
Then, after a pause:
“To take care of his home and his family”
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