Garrett Langley Flock Safety CEO
The short version: A creator spotlights the irony of Flock Safety's CEO preaching public safety while shielding his own privacy from the surveillance net he sells.
Our Take
"Almost Making It" zeroes in on something a lot of us in the ALPR accountability world have been saying for a while: the people building and selling mass surveillance tools rarely want to live under the same microscope they market to police departments. Garrett Langley has built Flock Safety into a nationwide network of license plate cameras by framing it as a neutral public safety tool, but when the cameras and the scrutiny point back at the company itself, the tone shifts fast.
That double standard is the whole ballgame. Flock's pitch rests on the idea that if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide — yet that logic conveniently stops applying the moment it's the CEO's own data, movements, or business practices under the lens. Communities approving Flock contracts rarely get the same transparency Flock expects from the public it's recording, and that imbalance of power is exactly why local pushback keeps growing in city councils across the country.
Credit to the creator for putting a face and a name to a system that too often hides behind corporate PR and "crime-fighting" talking points. If you want to see whether these cameras have landed in your own neighborhood, check our map, and if you're ready to push back at a city council meeting or public comment period, our take-action resources can help you get started.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Almost Making It, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.