Florida blocks Flock cams on state highways

Florida is banning Flock cameras and other automated license plate readers across state highways, as reported earlier by NBC News and local news outlet WUSF. In a memo on Monday, Florida's Department of Transportation says it's revoking permits for all license plate readers, adding that they must be removed from state highways within 30 days. As noted in the memo, Florida's DOT says it's issuing the order in response to the "recent exponential increase in deployments" of license plate readers,…