Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night…See more®😳👇🏼💬

Eight Flock Safety license plate readers vanished from four Winona intersections July 29–August 1, leaving $24,000 in damage and no suspects

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Key Takeaways

Thieves cut down all eight Winona Flock Safety cameras in a single weekend.
Replacing the stolen license plate readers will cost Winona roughly $24,000 total.
Flock Safety cameras face growing nationwide resistance through spray-painting, bagging, and physical removal.
A Winona police officer noticed something odd: the department’s surveillance cameras hadn’t logged any activity. A drive to each site confirmed it. Every metal pole had been cut near the base, left lying in the weeds like felled saplings. The camera units themselves? Gone. All eight of Winona’s Flock Safety automated license plate readers — devices that capture plates and vehicle data, feeding everything to a cloud system police use to track cars tied to crimes — had been physically removed over a single weekend. The surveillance debate in Minnesota just graduated from city council resolutions to bolt cutters.

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What Actually Happened
Eight cameras, four days, zero suspects — and a $24,000 hole in Winona’s surveillance network.