City Flock status: Three cameras deactivated and covered; nonrenewal announced
Private-camera status: Not affected by the city decision
The city says its cameras will not come back online.
Madison Heights deactivated and covered its three city Flock cameras on September 23, 2026. In an October 11 statement, the city said it would proceed with disconnection and allow the agreement to expire without renewal.
The city said it had given Flock an opportunity to address concerns about access and sharing but did not receive the clear, reliable safeguards it required.
Spectrum News: Madison Heights ends its Flock relationship →
This is now broader than the earlier dispensary-camera dispute.
In August, the city and JARS Cannabis revised an agreement and removed a Flock camera aimed at the dispensary parking lot after customers and the business objected. At that point, other city cameras remained.
The October action is different: it concerns all three city-operated cameras and the city contract.
Local 4: earlier JARS camera removal →
What the decision does not cover
The city said privately operated Flock cameras may remain. Businesses and other organizations with their own agreements can continue using the technology.
That makes the closeout questions:
- Were all three city cameras physically removed?
- Were city accounts, alerts and sharing connections closed?
- What routine city-origin data was deleted?
- Which private cameras remain available to police, under what agreements and rules?
- Is any replacement ALPR system being considered?
Madison Heights is a confirmed city nonrenewal. Complete physical removal and the wider private-sharing picture still need verification.