Flock Cameras Update This Week With Flock CEO

Our Take

When the company selling the surveillance system is also the one investigating its own misuse scandal, forgive us for being skeptical. This video, credited to Truth Social, covers Flock Safety's CEO addressing reports of officers using the camera network to look up friends, exes, and who knows who else — a pattern of abuse that keeps surfacing in agency after agency. Promising "major changes" is easy. Actually building a system where cops can't casually run plates on people they have a personal interest in is another matter entirely.

This is the core problem with ALPR networks: once thousands of cameras are logging every car that passes, the technology is only as trustworthy as the audit logs and the people willing to enforce them. Flock has a financial incentive to project confidence to the police departments and city councils still signing contracts, not to scare them off with the full scope of the problem. Corporate PR about reform is not the same as independent oversight, public audit trails, or communities getting a real vote on whether these cameras belong on their streets at all.

If you want to know whether this kind of camera is already watching your neighborhood, check our map, and if you think your city council should be asking harder questions before renewing a Flock contract, see how to get involved.