A Flock camera in Oshkosh. March 31, 2026. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — The city of Green Bay says it will continue to use Flock license plate recognition cameras despite other communities, such as Appleton and Oshkosh, announcing they’ll stop using the technology.
Green Bay currently has 42 of the devices in the city. The police chief says they are in visible spots and the city is not hiding their existence.
According to Green Bay Police Chief Chris Davis,
We just entered into a five-year agreement with a company called Flock for both an extension of a license plate reader program that we’ve had for a few years now, and then the addition of a Drone as First Responder program. We review contracts very carefully before we sign them and before we commit to anything; so we’re very clear on the terms of our agreement with the vendor and what expectations that agreement sets for them in terms of things like data security, and who the data belongs to, and the appropriate uses of our data. So there’s not really a need at this point to re-evaluate a contract that we evaluated very thoroughly before we signed it.
The Green Bay cameras were installed a few years ago as part of a larger strategy to reduce a problem with gun violence in the city. The chief crediting the license plate readers with helping to reduce those crimes as well as others.
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