How Flock Safety Flags Potential Police Abuse
The short version: Flock's own CEO tells Fox Business his company can spot cops misusing ALPR data, but self-grading on surveillance abuse isn't oversight.
Our Take
This clip comes straight from Flock Safety's corporate channel, with CEO Garrett Langley doing what company founders do on business television: selling confidence. The pitch is that Flock's software can flag when an officer runs a plate for personal reasons, stalking, or other misuse outside a stated public-safety purpose. That's a real feature worth acknowledging — but it's also a feature designed, marketed, and controlled entirely by the vendor selling the cameras in the first place.
The problem isn't whether Flock *can* flag misuse. It's who decides what counts as misuse, who sees the flags, and whether any of it happens before the damage is done rather than after a reporter or a lawsuit forces disclosure. Audit logs built by the company profiting from a nationwide camera network are not a substitute for independent oversight, public audit trails, or hard limits on data sharing between agencies and with ICE. Self-policing talk is good TV; it's not accountability.
Readers should treat this video the way they'd treat any vendor interview — as marketing, not a safeguard. Check whether your local police department has signed up for one of these networks on our camera map, and if you want real guardrails instead of promises, see what you can push for locally through our take-action resources.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Flock, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.