> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.citizenjournal.us/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Residents demand Lindsborg scrap its Flock license plate cameras; officials say a response is coming - URL: https://www.citizenjournal.us/residents-demand-a-kansas-city-scrap-its-flock-license-plate-cameras-officials-say-a-response-is-coming/ - Published: 2026-09-09T12:41:16.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-09T13:08:04.000Z - Description: No one spoke in favor of the cameras, and the council took no action on the contract. - Author: Greg Loving - Tags: mcj, dnn, #news Stories like this stay free for everyone when neighbors subscribe. Be one of them. [Become a subscriber](https://www.citizenjournal.us/?ref=cta-3#/portal/signup) LINDSBORG, Kan. — Six residents told the City Council on Tuesday, Sept. 8, to cancel its $6,000 Flock Safety license plate camera contract and take the cameras down, and city leaders said a response is being prepared. The council [voted Aug. 17 to renew the contract](https://www.citizenjournal.us/lindsborg-renews-6-000-flock-camera-contract-orders-policy-review-before-october-expansion/) and ordered a review of department policy before an October expansion of the camera system. Speakers described the cameras, which they said sit at the entrances to town, as warrantless mass surveillance and questioned what level of local crime justifies them. One resident said Kansas has 1,763 cameras, or six for every 10,000 people, ranking the state second per capita. Citizen Journal confirmed those figures are directionally correct. A resident read the council a public statement from the Racine County, Wisconsin, sheriff's office. The statement said the sheriff ordered the immediate removal of all Flock cameras operated by that office after learning that Flock keeps a separate aggregated data set — retained for up to five years and marketed to other government and private customers through its traffic analytics product — beyond the 30-day retention period the office believed applied. Flock's position is that once data is stripped of identifiers it belongs to the company, and Flock announced in August it was cutting its recommended default retention for identifiable data from 30 days to seven. A ward representative said his objection was not an attack on the city's own officers. Another resident said she trusts current city officials but not the companies involved, and that no one can predict what future officials or corporations may decide to do. The mayor presiding over the meeting told the speakers that he and the city administrator had discussed the issue at least a couple of times in the preceding days, trying to come up with an appropriate way of responding. He said he did not yet know what that response would be or when it would come. One resident left the council an example of license plate reader legislation drafted by the American Civil Liberties Union and a resolution to end the city's contract. *This article was written using our proprietary AI system, Cronkite. The final decision to publish this article was made by a human. For more info, read our* [*AI policy*](https://www.citizenjournal.us/ai-policy/)*.* --- --- Found a mistake? Have a news tip or feedback to share? Contact our newsroom using the button below: [Contact Us](https://www.citizenjournal.us/contact/) ---