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How Flock Is Building America’s Private Surveillance Infrastructure

August 12, 2026 AT and AB, Left Voice. , , ,
In 2017 Garrett Langley, along with two other fellow Georgia Tech graduates, designed a purpose-built surveillance camera on his dining room table. He received positive feedback from a Georgia police detective, which inspired him to create what would become the United States’ largest automated license plate reading (ALPR) surveillance company and positioned himself as CEO. Within seven years following its founding, Flock had a meteoric rise in popularity among local law enforcement, claiming to have hardware installed in over 6,000 municipalities and 4,000 cities, across 42 states.

Resistance To Flock Cameras And Police Surveillance Is Exploding

May 23, 2026 Mike Ludwig, Truthout. , , ,
In communities large and small, red and blue, all across the United States, residents are filling local council meetings in opposition to the explosive growth of high-tech police surveillance systems. Local movements to rid city streets of AI-powered surveillance cameras and Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) networks used by law enforcement are growing rapidly amid scandals, mounting privacy concerns, and public backlash to AI and mass surveillance under the authoritarian Trump administration. The cameras and their associated systems are capable of building complex profiles of people and vehicles as they move through public areas.

Amid Community Pressure, City Halts Plate Reader Camera Contract

March 9, 2026 Michael Powers, People's World. , , ,
Coralville, Iowa—Following a meeting on February 24, the Coralville City Council voted 3-1 to cancel its $36,000 contract with Flock Safety and remove the city’s automated license plate reader cameras (ALPRs). The decision follows months of community pressure and a recent legal threat from the Iowa Attorney General’s office regarding the city’s restrictions on the cameras for immigration enforcement. The controversy dates back nearly a year, when the $36,000 contract was first signed by the police chief without prior public discussion or a dedicated City Council vote.

Camera System Feeds Information To Police On Drivers Nationwide

November 27, 2025 Tyler Walicek, Truthout. , , ,
The United States public has been treated to round after round of revelations disclosing that our actions — public and private, digital and physical, criminalized and legal — are tracked and surveilled in a bevy of ways. New realms of egregious privacy violations and excesses continue to be regularly broached by corporations and police. One of the most concerning contemporary cases is that of the AI-enabled security camera start-up Flock Safety, which, by surveilling enormous expanses of public terrain and facilitating the tracking of innocent individuals, is both testing the limits of warrantless dragnet surveillance and indulging in extremes of vacuous start-up hype and negligent absurdity.
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