What is Flock?

Flock CEO Garret Langley on technology provider accountability.

“You are responsible now as a technology provider with the worst behaviors of your customers.”

Flock Safety: license plate reader and drone surveillance company expanding into AI-powered law enforcement tools, with drones now its fastest-growing business unit and a deliberate go-slow policy on new AI feature releases.

“Drones is probably our fastest growing business unit right now.”

Flock CEO on the company's core ethical boundary around AI and suspicion.

“We never want to be a company that defines suspicion.”

Flock distinguishes its cameras from broad surveillance by listing explicit limits: no facial recognition, no video capture, no interior-of-vehicle imaging, and no person-based search within the system, only license plate tracking.

“We don't do facial recognition. We don't capture video. we don't look inside the car. we don't even allow in our system to search for people for our license cameras.”

In one month (July), Flock was associated with locating approximately 1,125 missing people and recovering over 20,000 stolen cars.

“Last month it was about 1,125 missing people and over 20,000 stolen cars.”

Flock estimates 90% of crimes will be solved within seven days of data retention, the basis for its shift from a 30-day to 7-day default retention window.

“We think 90% of crimes will get solved within seven days of data retention.”

Flock attended close to 10,000 city council meetings in a single year to win local government contracts.

“We went, we went to something close to 10,000 city council meetings as a business.”

Nearly 20 cities that had banned or discontinued Flock cameras have since reactivated them, signaling a backlash against privacy-driven removals.

“We've had close to 20 cities already turn their cameras back on.”

Flock reports north of one million crimes solved and over 10,000 missing persons found using its system.

“North of a million crimes solved using Flock. North of 10,000 people found who were missing.”

Flock cameras (automated license plate readers) have attracted more press scrutiny in the past two months than in the prior several years, signaling rising public and regulatory attention.

“The press that flock cameras have gotten in the past couple of months exceeds what we've seen over the past several years for a technology like this.”