The camera you own can become a camera they watch

Every document on this site is published exactly as received, with its hash recorded in evidence/SHA256SUMS.txt. If a copy elsewhere does not match that hash, this copy is the one that is verified.

An agency can say, truthfully, that it does not administer Flock, and still see camera footage from across your county every day. It does that through an aggregation platform.

Axon, the company that makes Tasers and police body cameras, sells one called Fusus. Its public-facing piece is Community Connect, and Axon describes it plainly: a voluntary program that lets residents and businesses register or integrate their private security cameras with their local law enforcement agency.

Those two words are doing a lot of work, and they mean different things.

Registered means police know your camera exists and where it points. When something happens nearby, they can come to you and ask for footage.

Integrated means the feed goes to them. The camera is on your house or your storefront, you paid for it, you maintain it, and the video arrives at a police console.

What Axon publishes about Florida

Axon lists twenty-three Community Connect programs in Florida, spread across fifteen counties. Most do not publish camera counts. Two do.

Orlando reports 7,240 registered cameras and 4,092 integrated. Miami reports 2,406 registered and 4,399 integrated. That is roughly eighteen thousand cameras in two cities, disclosed by the vendor itself, before anyone files a single records request.

Why this matters for the rest of the map

A county marked vendor-confirmed on this site is not a county where we have obtained records. It is a county where the vendor advertises a program and nobody has asked the agency about it yet. That is a starting point for a public records request, not a finding.

Two honest limits are worth stating clearly.

These are private security cameras, not license plate readers. They are a different technology doing a different job, and conflating the two would be wrong.

And the program is voluntary. Nobody is compelled to register a camera. People sign up because they want their neighborhood watched, which is exactly why this expands quietly and without a vote.

The question worth asking your own agency is not whether the program is voluntary. It is what happens to the footage once it arrives, how long it is kept, who else can search it, and whether any of that was ever written down.