Flock Cameras Vanish as Cities Bag Them and Cancel Contracts Amid Privacy Revolt
Garrett Langley built a business on the idea that more eyes on the road meant safer streets. His company, Flock Safety, blanketed American neighborhoods with automated license plate readers. The devices captured vehicle data relentlessly. They fed it into a vast private network. Police departments loved the results. Yet communities began to push back hard.
Today that resistance has reached a boiling point. Cities from Wisconsin to California are tearing down the cameras or covering them with simple black trash bags. Officials cite broken trust and murky data practices. Langley himself issued a public apology last week. The moment feels like a reckoning for one of the largest private surveillance systems in the United States…