District 1
Southwest
HQ Bartow
1,873.5 mi SHS/645 ALPR ≤50 m
Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Lee, Manatee, Okeechobee, Polk, Sarasota
ROW Record · 51 jurisdictions · 2026-09-01
Whose dirt. Whose permit.
Florida revoked local-LEA General Use Permits on State Highway System right-of-way. 35 jurisdictions have their own statute or named highway-occupancy instrument. 16 do not. None of that is a national Flock ban.
A state is live only from that state’s own statute or that state’s own named ALPR occupancy instrument. If it is not retrieved, it stays empty. Official records are primary.
35 live16 not yet retrieved
Featured briefing · Florida EOM 26-01
SHS centerline
12,287
certified miles
OSM ALPR tags
9,573
Florida, 31 Aug 2026
Near SHS (50 m)
3,446
inference, not a permit
Operator tagged
857
of 9,573 nodes
Featured: Florida, 31 Aug 2026
On 31 August 2026 the Florida Department of Transportation used authority it already had under § 316.0777, Florida Statutes: the Department may approve, deny, or order the removal of an automated license plate recognition system from the right-of-way of a road on the State Highway System.
EOM 26-01 does three things. It revokes every General Use Permit FDOT had issued to a local law enforcement agency for those devices. It gives permittees 30 days to take them down — after which FDOT will remove what is left. And it says FDOT will not issue new LPR placement permits in its jurisdiction.
The memo cites an “exponential increase” in deployments, “reports of misuse, data privacy concerns, and surveillance schemes,” and says the action is needed “to preserve Floridians’ sovereignty and quality of life.”
SupportedEvidence
FDOT issued Engineering and Operations Memorandum 26-01 on 31 August 2026, revoking General Use Permits for automated license plate readers on State Highway System right-of-way.
Supported by the official FDOT bulletins index listing EOM26-01 with matching title and date, and by the letter on FDOT letterhead transcribed here. The hosted PDF file on fdot.gov was not independently downloaded at briefing time.
51 jurisdictions35 live — badge as statute, DOT instrument, both, or revocation. 16 not yet retrieved.National workbenchDownload /packs.csv. A records letter only from that state’s own law. Offices, not personal names.Florida removal clockEOM 26-01 SHS countdown. After Sept 30 it counts overdue. Not a national clock.Florida · all 67 countiesState order on SHS in every county. Local policy on county roads is a separate choice. Complying with FDOT is not a local ban.Florida SHS mapOn-System segments with OSM/DeFlock points. Florida only. Proximity is not a permit.Florida statute, annotated316.0777, 316.0778, 334.03(21), and Rule 14-20.010.What right-of-way isThe legal strip of land, not just the asphalt. SHS vs county vs city.Ask the briefing deskThis state’s record, or the Florida briefing. Not a plate lookup. Not legal advice.
What this takes down
- Fixed ALPR / LPR units that local law enforcement placed in State Highway System right-of-way under an FDOT General Use Permit.
- Any such unit that is an immediate safety concern — FDOT reserved the right to pull those now, not in 30 days.
- Future requests. As of the memo date, FDOT says it will cease issuing LPR placement permits in its jurisdiction.
SupportedEvidence
The revocation applies to LPR approvals FDOT issued to local law enforcement agencies for devices in SHS right-of-way.
The memorandum is addressed to Local Agency Permitholders. Copy line includes State Agency Officials.
What this does not touch
- Cameras on county roads and city streets that are not on the State Highway System — the large majority of Florida public mileage.
- Private property systems (retail lots, HOAs, campuses) unless they were actually sitting in SHS right-of-way under a local-LEA permit.
- Vehicle-mounted (mobile) ALPR. The memo is about placement in state right-of-way under a General Use Permit.
SupportedEvidence
The memorandum does not, by its terms, revoke cameras on county roads, city streets, or private property that are not on the State Highway System.
Local governments remain free, on their own ROW, to keep, move, or take down devices under local policy. That is outside this memo.
Some sheriffs and city councils then chose to go further. That is local policy, listed separately.
The roads that are in play
The State Highway System is 12,287 certified centerline miles — about one-tenth of Florida’s public-road mileage. That is the network whose right-of-way FDOT controls for this permit. FDOT Districts are the maintaining agencies of that network.
District 2
Northeast
HQ Lake City
2,600.7 mi SHS/717 ALPR ≤50 m
Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Madison, Nassau, Putnam, St. Johns, Suwannee, Taylor, Union
District 3
Northwest
HQ Chipley
2,414.7 mi SHS/746 ALPR ≤50 m
Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Walton, Washington
District 4
Southeast
HQ Fort Lauderdale
1,375.3 mi SHS/814 ALPR ≤50 m
Broward, Indian River, Martin, Palm Beach, St. Lucie
District 5
Central
HQ DeLand
2,158 mi SHS/664 ALPR ≤50 m
Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Sumter, Volusia
District 6
South
HQ Miami
735.6 mi SHS/263 ALPR ≤50 m
Miami-Dade, Monroe
District 7
Tampa Bay
HQ Tampa
1,137.1 mi SHS/298 ALPR ≤50 m
Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas
District 8
Turnpike Enterprise
HQ Ocoee / Turkey Lake
Manages Turnpike-system facilities statewide. On-System records with managing-district code 8 sit inside geographic districts 1–7.
Mileage is from simplified On-System geometry (close to the certified 12,287.0 mi statewide). “ALPR ≤50 m” is an OSM proximity count, not a permit count.
How to read the camera layer
FDOT has not published a list of the specific permitted devices. This briefing therefore shows two separate things on the same map: the official On-System roads (primary), and crowd-mapped ALPR locations from OpenStreetMap / DeFlock (unofficial). A camera near a state road is not proof it had — or lacked — a General Use Permit.
UnprovenInference
About 3,446 of those OSM ALPR points fall within 50 meters of an FDOT On-System centerline; 4,147 within 100 meters.
Distance is to simplified SHS centerline, not to the legal ROW boundary. ROW width varies from a few dozen feet in towns to hundreds of feet on limited-access facilities. Proximity is not a permit determination.
UnprovenAssumption
FDOT has published a spatial roster of the specific LPR devices whose permits were revoked.
No public GIS or permit table of revoked LPR sites was retrieved from FDOT on 31 August 2026. Map points in this briefing are not that roster.