Flock Safety director lied under oath before the West Virginia officials

Our Take

Credit to Orwell Day for digging up this timeline and laying it out plainly. On August 9, Flock Safety's Director of Government Affairs, Kevin Kane, told a West Virginia legislative committee that two-factor authentication had been "required as standard practice for a long time." Four days later, CEO Garrett Langley published a blog post saying MFA was made mandatory at the beginning of that same month. Those two statements don't live in the same universe, and lawmakers deserve to know which one is true.

This isn't a trivial gotcha. Flock's entire pitch to statehouses and city councils rests on the idea that its network of license plate cameras is locked down tight, audited, and safe from misuse. If a company representative is shading the truth about basic account security under oath, that should make every elected official pause before voting to expand a surveillance system that tracks the movements of ordinary people who've done nothing wrong. Security promises made in a sales pitch mean nothing if they can't survive a direct comparison to the company's own public statements.

We've said it before: these cameras are spreading into your town with minimal public debate, and the people selling them aren't always straight with the officials voting to approve them. Check our map to see what's already watching your community, and if you want to push back, our take-action page has tools to help you hold local officials accountable before they sign another contract.