Two months after Monroe County commissioners voted on September 1 to defund the county-paid Flock license-plate cameras, the messy reality is coming into focus — and not every community is giving its cameras up.

The county’s termination update — already overdue past its own 45-day deadline — is now set for the Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, November 17.

Sheriff Troy Goodnough says cameras without current contracts “will eventually be physically removed,” but notes there is only one Flock technician in the state of Michigan, and data access stops the moment a contract ends.

Here’s the town-by-town picture:

• The City of Monroe keeps its 11 readers through August 2027.
• Monroe Township has 2 cameras at I-75 and LaPlaisance Road, with a contract running to March 2027.
• Dundee will let its 4 cameras expire on February 28, 2027.
• Bedford Township already cut funding and covered up its 4 cameras at Sterns and Secor — two were recently damaged.
• Frenchtown Township voted September 15 to stop funding its cameras.

This is the Monroe County, Michigan, picture — a separate story from Toledo’s own Flock camera fight at City Council.

Photo: Orizan / Wikimedia Commons — illustrative image of an Ohio police cruiser.

Source: The Monroe News, Nov. 12, 2026