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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont is calling for an immediate pause on the installation of new automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras and surveillance technology across his state — acknowledging what The Georgia Record has been reporting aggressively for months: municipalities are deploying mass surveillance infrastructure on American citizens without informed consent, without clear privacy protections, and without accountability.

In a letter delivered August 7, 2026 to the Connecticut Police Officers Standards and Training Council, Lamont requested that within 30 days the council develop binding guidance for local and state police departments on the use of surveillance cameras and ALPRs — including what data is collected, how long it is stored, who has access to it, and under what conditions it can be shared.

"I am in agreement with the many residents across Connecticut who are seeing this technology being implemented by their towns and are wondering what types of privacy protections are being implemented for ordinary people who are just going about their lives," Lamont said. "We must have clear policies in place regarding what is happening with this data, who has access to it, and how it can be used."

The governor is urging all municipalities to immediately pause installation of any new cameras and ALPRs until the guidance is finalized.

Georgia Record Has Been Ahead Of This Story

While Connecticut is just now waking up to the problem, The Georgia Record has spent months exposing the company at the center of this surveillance expansion: Atlanta-based Flock Safety — one of the largest automated license plate reader networks in American history, operating an estimated 100,000 cameras across thousands of communities nationwide, largely without the informed consent of the residents being surveilled.

Our reporting has documented a pattern of corporate arrogance, privacy violations, and government overreach:

• FLOCK's Animal Farm — The Georgia Record exposed how Flock Safety surveils the entire country without informed consent while simultaneously blocking journalists from filming its own people or headquarters. Critics have called the network one of the largest warrantless mass surveillance infrastructures in American history.
• Flock Safety CEO: Critics Are Terrorists — Flock Safety founder and CEO Garrett Langley, whose company is headquartered in Atlanta, told critics of his pervasive surveillance cameras that their concerns made them sound like terrorists. This is the corporate mindset building the infrastructure of the American surveillance state.
• While The Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds The Digital Police State — Georgia Record analysis of how Flock Safety has used political distraction to quietly spread its camera network into thousands of American communities, building a de facto digital police state with little public debate.
• New Tool Helps Drivers Dodge Flock Cameras — Georgia Record covered the launch of DeFlock, an open-source tool backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that lets drivers route around Flock Safety’s ALPR cameras — mapping roughly half of the company’s 100,000-camera network.
• LAPD Ends Contract With Flock Safety — The Los Angeles Police Department terminated its contract with Flock Safety, halting access to the company’s citywide surveillance network — a rare institutional pushback against the sprawling ALPR infrastructure.

The Broader Problem: No Informed Consent

Governor Lamont’s letter identifies the core failure that The Georgia Record has been spotlighting for months: Americans are being surveilled by private corporations and local governments with no clear legal framework, no public disclosure, and no meaningful consent. Residents simply drive past a camera — often installed with no public vote or community input — and their movements, vehicle data, and associations are logged, stored, and potentially shared with federal law enforcement.

Connecticut’s pause applies to school zone traffic cameras, work zone speed cameras, fixed ALPR devices, and drones. Lamont signed legislation in May (Public Act 26-14) attempting to address some privacy concerns, but acknowledged more is needed.

Georgia has no such pause. No such review. And Flock Safety — an Atlanta company — continues to expand its network across the state and the country, largely unchecked.

If one blue-state governor can recognize the threat to civil liberties posed by mass surveillance infrastructure deployed without informed consent, Georgia’s legislators have no excuse for their silence.

Source: Office of Governor Ned Lamont

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