Lawmaker: Flock Safety Skipped Hearing on 120,000-Camera Network

Our Take

When a company builds a surveillance network spanning 120,000 cameras and tracking vehicle movements in thousands of communities, you'd think showing up to explain yourself to elected officials would be the easy part. Instead, as CISO Marketplace reports, Flock Safety's leadership skipped a hearing where a senator wanted answers about the numbers behind their ALPR empire. That's not a scheduling conflict — that's a pattern. Flock has built its business on being everywhere while answering to almost no one.

This matters because these cameras aren't hypothetical. They're parked at the end of your street, logging your plate, your travel patterns, and building a searchable history that police departments and private subscribers can query without a warrant in most states. When a lawmaker can't get basic transparency about how a system of this scale actually operates, that's a flashing warning sign for every resident living under its lens. Public hearings exist precisely so the people deploying mass surveillance tech have to justify it in daylight — dodging that isn't a neutral move, it's a statement about priorities.

Credit to CISO Marketplace for keeping this on the record. If you want to see how close this network already is to your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally, our take-action page has concrete steps for making your town's elected officials ask the same hard questions this senator did.