Who REALLY owns Flock Safety? With James Carolan.
The short version: A Lot In Common's James Carolan traces who's really bankrolling Flock Safety, and the ownership trail matters as much as the cameras themselves.
Our Take
Most Flock coverage focuses on the hardware bolted to a pole at the end of your street. James Carolan's conversation on A Lot In Common takes a different angle: follow the money and power behind the company, not just the lens. Who funds, who profits, and who has a seat at the table when a private surveillance vendor becomes the default infrastructure for thousands of police departments — that's the question that doesn't get asked enough, and it's worth your time.
Ownership matters because Flock isn't just selling cameras, it's selling a data pipeline. Investors and corporate partners shape product roadmaps, data-sharing deals, and lobbying priorities in ways that never show up in a city council presentation. When a handful of well-connected backers have influence over a system that logs the movements of ordinary Americans with zero warrant required, that's not a hardware story anymore — it's a governance story, and one that deserves the same scrutiny as any other concentration of unaccountable power.
Credit to Carolan for pulling that thread. Our job is to keep showing you where the thread leads in your own backyard — check our camera map to see what's already watching your town, and hit up take-action if you're ready to push back on local contracts.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of A Lot In Common Podcast, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.