Flock has 120,000 cameras in 49 states and can scan and generate 20 billion images per month

Our Take

When a sitting U.S. Senator starts citing Flock Safety's own numbers — 120,000 cameras, operations in 49 states, and a reported 20 billion images processed every month — it's a sign this conversation has finally broken out of privacy advocacy circles and into the halls of Congress. Credit to Senator Josh Hawley's team for putting these figures in front of a wider audience, even if the clip itself is brief. Scale like that isn't just "public safety infrastructure." It's a de facto national vehicle-tracking network, built by a private company, with little public input and even less oversight.

What makes this notable isn't partisan — it's structural. Hawley is a conservative Republican, and the backlash to Flock's footprint has been building from both the left and right for the same reasons: no warrant requirement, inconsistent retention policies, and local police departments quietly plugging into a shared surveillance pool that stretches far beyond their jurisdiction. Twenty billion images a month isn't a rounding error; it's a dataset large enough to reconstruct the daily movements of millions of ordinary Americans who've never been suspected of anything.

This is exactly the kind of number that should push more communities to check who's watching their own streets. Head over to our camera map to see if Flock has already rolled into your town, and if you want to push back at a city council meeting or statehouse hearing, our take-action page has the tools to get started.