// THE VERGE — SALUTE
A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contact and it refused
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Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to undo it.
Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to undo it.
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In April of 2025, Elgin Community College had six Flock safety cameras installed to “enhance the safety and security of students.” But by September of that year, the school’s administration grew concerned that Flock was sharing data with Customs and Border Patrol, that camera feeds were not properly secured, and that both law enforcement and the company’s employees were abusing access to the data.
So in October of 2025, Elgin Community College requested Flock to remove its cameras. According to Elgin’s President Peggy Heinrich, Flock rejected the request, saying it had not violated its contract. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, school officials reached out again in December, offered to pay for the remaining five months of the contract, and still requested that the cameras be removed. They were met with silence.
That’s when things took a strange and somewhat sinister turn. According to the Sun-Times: