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**Flock Safety Employees Are Demoralized and Thinking of Quitting Amid Massive Backlash**

Lark technology · 2 months ago

The short version: A YouTube report claims Flock Safety staff are demoralized and eyeing the exits as public backlash over ALPR surveillance intensifies.

Our Take

Lark Technology's video digs into something we've suspected for a while: the backlash against Flock Safety isn't just a PR headache for the company, it's apparently seeping into the workforce itself. When the people building and selling a surveillance product start losing faith in it, that's worth paying attention to. We can't verify internal morale numbers ourselves, but the broader trend lines up with what communities across the country are telling us — more pushback, more public records requests, more city councils asking hard questions.

This matters because Flock's entire business model depends on a quiet, frictionless rollout: get the cameras up, normalize the data-sharing network, and hope nobody asks too many questions about who's watching the watchers. Internal doubt is a crack in that strategy. Employees who signed up to sell "community safety" are reportedly grappling with the reality of building a nationwide ALPR dragnet that law enforcement agencies query without warrants, and that has already been shown to enable abuse and mission creep far beyond stolen cars.

If even the people inside the machine are uneasy, that's a signal the rest of us should amplify, not ignore. Check our camera map to see what's been deployed near you, and if you want to push back locally, our take-action guide has concrete steps for getting answers from your city.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Lark technology, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.