Florida's camera rule for convenience businesses sets no retention period. In practice your recorder decides: it keeps video until the disk fills, then writes over the oldest days. Find out how many days yours holds, and save any clip you need before it is overwritten.
Not legal advice. This guide summarizes Florida statutes as we read them in October 2026. Ask a Florida lawyer about your store.
What the law says
Florida Statutes 812.173 asks for a system that can record and retrieve an image. It does not set a number of days. If your insurer, your franchise or a lawyer gives you a period, follow it.
What your recorder decides
Days on disk depend on the number of cameras, the resolution, the frame rate and the size of the disk. A storage calculator gives you an estimate; the recorder's playback screen gives you the real oldest day.
What Rikuy keeps, and what it does not
Rikuy stores no video in its cloud. The recording stays on your recorder. The activity log of every look is kept for 12 months, look thumbnails for 30 days, and a clip your agent fetched can be opened for 24 hours.
Rikuy also reads your recorder's clock and its days on disk, so you see in the app how far back you can look.
Sources
- Florida Statutes 812.173, convenience business security. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0800-0899/0812/Sections/0812.173.html
- CCTV Design Tool, video storage calculator. https://cctvdesigntool.com/calculators/storage