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[July 21 2026] Select Board briefly touches upon Flock Cameras and future public discussion.

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The purpose of this website is to alert residents of Milton, Massachusetts to the procurement and installation of Flock ALPR devices, and the lack of public disclosure surrounding this project.

Through public records requests, correspondence with the Town Administrator and past/present members of committees, we have uncovered exactly how this occurred and find the details extremely concerning.

In May of 2026, the town overwhelmingly passed a capital appropriations budget of $90,000 for upgrades to aging public-way cameras and town technology. It is well-understood that the town struggles with congestion and cut-through traffic and the reliability of public way cameras needed to be addressed.

We have since learned that, prior to this vote, MPD had already entered into a separate lease agreement with Flock Group, with no presentation having been made to the Warrant Committee, no disclosure having been made to the public, and no verbiage regarding Flock having been captured in any meeting minutes by any town committee.

In December of 2024, MPD signed the town into a lease agreement with Flock Group at an annual-recurring cost of $39,500 for the initial term, to be renewed on a 2yr term thereafter. Surveys began in March of 2025. Installation was completed over the ensuing 60 days.

The invoice was paid through the PD's operating budget, over which the Chief has full statutory discretion. Since this was a modest operating cost (versus a large capital cost which requires WC oversight,) no disclosure to the public was necessary.

The public only became aware when people started noticing them. Several public records requests had to be submitted to obtain the signed contract, which is available below. Repeated public records requests for the locations of these cameras have been completely redacted.

The abuses of Flock Group and their products are well-known, highly publicized, and part of an ongoing national controversy. For those reasons, there are two major concerns to address:

1. The procurement approach effectively bypassed public comment on a project where vociferous pushback was all but guaranteed. This is a total blindside to public trust; the opacity and optics are terrible.

2. The notion that the entire town can be committed to such a broad, invasive lease agreement with a private entity through a single department's operating budget without public disclosure/debate is, frankly, outrageous.

Municipalities in MA and across the country have been reaching the same conclusion and concluding their contracts with Flock Group. We have contacted the Select Board and requested they explore this chain of events and follow suit. Concerned citizens are strongly encouraged to do the same.

There is a roadmap to a positive outcome here. As we saw in May, the cost appetite for traditional camera upgrades is very healthy; residents are well aware of the road conditions and who protects them. New technological capabilities such as ALPR also merit careful discussion but a happy medium is absolutely achievable. If MPD would like to host a discussion or public RFC on ALPRs in the community, acknowledge (instead of dismiss) the objectively-true oversight/transparency issues inherent to these systems, and discuss costs for Fy27 to introduce a system which speaks to these concerns, a tremendous shift in the narrative could be achieved here.

But first, Flock has to go.

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