Flock Safety CEO speaks out after LAPD suspends use of company's surveillance cameras

Our Take

ABC7's report gets at something we keep coming back to: when a police department itself hits pause on Flock Safety, that's not activists being paranoid, that's the system acknowledging its own accountability gaps. LAPD didn't suspend these cameras because officers stopped wanting license plate data. They suspended them because the guardrails around who else gets that data, and how it's audited, apparently weren't solid enough to trust.

Flock's CEO doing damage control is predictable. The company's pitch has always been "public safety technology," but the pitch skips over the part where a nationwide network of plate readers, run by a private vendor, can quietly become a surveillance backbone that outlives any single police department's intentions or oversight. LAPD's move is a rare moment where an agency openly admitted the trust wasn't there yet, and that admission matters more than any CEO soundbite.

This is exactly why tracking where these cameras actually are, and pushing back locally, still matters more than waiting on a company's PR cycle to fix itself. Check our camera map to see what's near you, and hit take action if you want to push your own city council toward the same scrutiny LAPD just applied.