Summary
Resident Chad Zebor urged the council to remove the automated license plate reader cameras, arguing for-profit vendors and outside agencies control data with no local parameters.
At a glance
- Total mentions
- 13
- Last 30 days
- 2
Rising — discussed at 3 meetings since Sep 22, 2026, up from 2 in the two months before.
Impact analysis
The program costs roughly $40,000 a year in recurring spending.
Police investigations use plate data to solve crimes; a speaker noted he was a witness in a major Apex crime this year.
The speaker argued residents' movements could be accessed by outside entities without local control.
Mentions & discussions (12)
Regular Town Council Meeting — October 27, 2026
Resident Chad Zebor urged the council to remove the automated license plate reader cameras, arguing for-profit vendors and outside agencies control data with no local parameters.
Regular Town Council Meeting — October 13, 2026
The Public Safety Committee made no recommendation on the Flock license plate reader program and will keep discussing data access, retention, and safeguards into December, ahead of the January 2027 contract expiration. Council Member Gray is hosting a town hall October 22.
Regular Town Council Meeting — September 22, 2026
All six public forum speakers opposed the town's Flock ALPR cameras, citing data-sharing scandals, misreads that led to innocent people being held at gunpoint, and Fourth Amendment concerns. One speaker defended the cameras. The contract decision looms in January.
Flock review: Apex leaders meet Thursday to discuss Flock cameras after privacy concerns
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Regular Town Council Meeting — August 25, 2026
Multiple residents demanded the town end its Flock camera contract, citing security flaws, federal immigration-related searches, and data sharing with over a thousand agencies. One speaker cited the police department's own audit showing thousands of federal queries despite assurances otherwise.
Regular Town Council Meeting — August 11, 2026
Roughly ten speakers opposed the town's Flock ALPR cameras and the pending Axon agreement, citing privacy, data security, and misuse cases elsewhere; one speaker defended the technology. The council deferred the Axon contract to its Public Safety Committee instead of approving it tonight.
Regular Town Council Meeting — June 9, 2026
The council heard a full defense of the ALPR program — thousands of daily plate reads, 1,700+ criminal alerts, zero improper searches — but members expressed distrust of the Flock vendor. Policy questions now head to the Public Safety Committee, with a decision point when the contract ends in January.
Regular Town Council Meeting — May 28, 2026
Residents split sharply: a retired APD officer defended the cameras as proven crime-fighters, while critics cited data sharing with nearly 1,000 agencies including federal ones and an FBI contract to tap Flock nationwide. No council action was taken tonight.
Regular Town Council Meeting — May 12, 2026
A resident warned that Apex's 10 license-plate cameras could grow to 50 under a proposed $150,000 budget request, citing cities nationwide canceling Flock contracts and a Milwaukee stalking scandal. He asked the council to cancel the $40,000 contract or write a policy with public input.
Regular Town Council Meeting — April 14, 2026
A speaker detailed Flock's venture-capital ties and recent contract term changes that he says give the company perpetual rights to Apex's camera data.
Regular Town Council Meeting — March 24, 2026
A resident said Apex's Flock license-plate camera system photographed his car 50 times on a six-minute drive and urged the council to demand independent evidence and hold an open hearing before the January 2027 renewal.
Regular Town Council Meeting — February 24, 2026
A resident challenged the police department's Flock ALPR camera program, asking who initiated it, what the crime data baseline was, and where the written trial evaluation is. He noted other cities have canceled Flock contracts and questioned data retention terms.
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