Florida has ordered the removal of Flock Safety cameras and other automated licence plate readers from state highways within 30 days, revoking all existing permits and halting future placement requests. The state's Department of Transportation cited a surge in deployments alongside mounting concerns over misuse, data privacy and surveillance, marking one of the most sweeping state-level rollbacks of the technology to date.

The order, issued in a memo on Monday, follows comments a week earlier from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who said the cameras were "out of control." It also echoes similar backlash elsewhere in the US: Texas Governor Greg Abbott froze state spending on Flock cameras last month, while Lansing, Michigan, Tempe, Arizona, and Knox County, Tennessee have all cancelled their Flock contracts amid growing scrutiny of licence plate surveillance.