Flock CEO: Just Photos. Flock's Blog: Live Video.

Our Take

Credit to Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net) for catching this one: Flock CEO Garrett Langley told ABC7 that these cameras simply snap a static photo of passing cars — nothing more. Meanwhile, Flock's own blog was telling customers that every existing reader in the field could be upgraded to live video. Those are not the same product, and they are not the same level of surveillance. One is a license plate log. The other is a rolling eye on your street.

This is the pattern we keep seeing from Flock: soften the public message, expand the technical capability. When a CEO downplays what the hardware does on television while the company's sales and marketing materials describe a very different system to municipalities and police departments, that's not a messaging slip — it's a trust problem. And trust is exactly what's required when a private company is quietly wiring thousands of cameras into local police networks with little public oversight.

If Flock can flip a switch and turn 'just photos' into live video across its entire existing fleet, the public deserves to know that before city councils sign the next contract, not after. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your routes, and head to take action if you want to push back before your town becomes the next case study.