Bextel pledges an executive order banning Flock cameras in Wyoming
Rebecca BextelConstitution Party candidate for governor of Wyoming
Rebecca Bextel pledges to prohibit Flock cameras in Wyoming by executive order, calling them unconstitutional.
“When I'm governor, I'm going to sign an executive order prohibiting Flock cameras in Wyoming, because it's frankly unconstitutional.”
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Should Flock-style license-plate surveillance networks exist?
Networked automated license-plate readers record passing vehicles and let agencies search or share travel records across locations. Candidates and officials disagree over whether to prohibit these networks, keep them with legal limits, or defend their use for investigations. This tracker records attributable positions on that choice, including proposals that would affect only public funding or data access.
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Rebecca Bextel's campaign video calls Flock cameras warrantless mass surveillance and pledges an executive order prohibiting them in Wyoming. She distinguishes networked cameras from a police officer running a plate during a stop. Published September 23, 2026.
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Bextel says an officer running a plate during a police stop is constitutional. She then criticizes Flock cameras for collecting plate information and timestamps on public roads and asks whether facial data will be collected next.
After the quotation
Bextel closes with an anecdote about a Flock camera near her Jackson home coming down. She says police questioned her and denies responsibility, then adds that it probably should have been her.
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Bextel rejects Flock-style license-plate surveillance networks, calls them unconstitutional and pledges to prohibit the cameras statewide. Her approval of an officer running a plate during a stop concerns a different practice and does not qualify her proposed ban on networked cameras.
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