🚨 Flock Safety's new AI cop-audit tool: Trust us? 🚨

Our Take

The Rainmaker Report has the scoop on Flock Safety's latest move: an AI-powered 'Audit Assistance' tool that's now mandatory for every police department running its cameras. The pitch is simple — let an algorithm flag suspicious searches so cops can't quietly run plates on ex-partners, journalists, or political rivals. Nice in theory. But notice who built the cop, the judge, and the courtroom here: Flock. The company selling the surveillance network is also the one deciding what counts as 'misuse' of it.

That's the core problem. Real accountability doesn't come from a vendor's internal software quietly flagging outliers to the same agencies it profits from serving. It comes from public transparency, independent audits, and legislative limits on what these networks can collect and how long they keep it. An AI audit tool with no public reporting requirement and no outside oversight is a PR shield, not a safeguard — and it lets departments claim compliance without ever showing their work.

Mass ALPR networks keep expanding faster than any real guardrails can catch up, and self-policing tools like this one are exactly how companies buy time and goodwill while dodging binding regulation. Check our camera map to see how dense Flock's footprint already is near you, and hit take action to push your local officials for real transparency instead of vendor-branded trust.