Police departments across the United States are taking down Flock Safety license plate cameras. But the cameras are not going away. Many cities are replacing them with the same technology from a different company: Axon. The Guardian reported in August that Axon had positioned itself to replace Flock in at least seven municipalities across five states. Longmont, Denver, Syracuse, Hayward and Durango have moved or plan to move from Flock to Axon. The de-flocking wave followed vandalism of Flock cameras in most states and growing anger over privacy, data sharing and immigration-enforcement concerns. Axon’s competing system, called Lightpost, clips onto existing streetlights and draws power from the light itself. A companion product, Axon Outpost, can be mounted on poles, vehicles or trailers. Both feed into Axon’s Fusus platform, which merges footage from body cameras, squad cars and drones. Hayward approved nearly $3 million over five years to replace 64 Flock cameras with Axon units. Privacy groups say switching vendors changes nothing, since the underlying technology performs the same function.