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Somewhere in Florida, at almost the same time, a different man was looking into Flock-collected data, but for an entirely different reason. Officer Christopher Goodson wasn\u2019t hunting a stranger, but was watching for his estranged wife. Using his department\u2019s access to Flock, he logged more than 700 unauthorized inquiries into her vehicle between Sept. 2024 and June 2026, and was arrested just last week.<\/p>\n

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Flock Safety has spent nine years promising to solve crime. At the same time it may have built the most pervasive surveillance network in American history\u2014one that is increasingly drawing loud pushback from advocates worried about what\u2019s been collected, and who has access to the data. <\/p>\n

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Flock\u2019s network of solar-powered cameras doesn\u2019t just record license plates, they log the make, model, color and identifying details of every vehicle that passes in more than 5,000 communities across 49 states. Then law enforcement offers can search that data using natural-language descriptions (for example car color or a bumper sticker) across thousands of jurisdictions simultaneously. Theoretically any police department with a Flock contract can reconstruct where you drove, when, and how often. The company says data belongs to its customers and is typically deleted in 30 days. But Fortune<\/em> found the LAPD\u2019s own Inspector General discovered that at least one Flock contract lets the company retain data for five years and use it for \u201cany purpose in Flock\u2019s sole discretion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The backlash is intense, and keeps growing: Residents in 36 states have vandalized or destroyed the automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras, 82 contracts have been terminated since 2021, and city council chambers from Boston to Santa Clara have become battlegrounds over a technology most residents didn\u2019t know was watching them. Says Anne Toomey McKenna, a privacy attorney and visiting law professor at the University of Richmond: \u201cOur Fourth Amendment was not designed for the persistent and pervasive surveillance environment which we live\u201d in. She called it a \u201cCatch 22\u2033\u2014the Supreme Court has ruled that accessing someone\u2019s location data is a search requiring a warrant, \u201cbut then we step into this gray area\u201d once police simply buy the data instead of compelling it.<\/p>\n

When reached for comment regarding the controversy, Flock CEO Garrett Langley told Fortune <\/em>that the company was started to solve crimes. \u201cEvery day, Flock helps solve crimes that would otherwise go unsolved. From finding missing children, to solving murders, violent crime, and recovering stolen vehicles, Flock gives investigators leads they didn\u2019t have before,\u201d Langley said. \u201cThat impact is why we started Flock, and it drives every decision we make about how this technology should be built and governed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It has been a very lucrative enterprise thus far. Flock is backed by blue-chip VC investors including a16z and Tiger Global. The nine year old startup told Fortune<\/em> in April it had raised $500 million at an $8.3 billion valuation, has taken in $1.2 billion total, and crossed $500 million in annual recurring revenue in the first half of 2026. The company has now expanded into video, gunshot detection, drones, and AI-powered search software. The company confirmed to Fortune <\/em>that over half of new revenue is non-license plate readers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are setting a baseline that we believe the industry should follow with our recent privacy enhancements and measures to proactively address officer abuse,\u201d Langley continued. <\/em>\u201cLocal communities, not Flock, decide their sharing rules, offense filters, and retention windows,\u201d he continued. \u201cOur job is to give them better tools that reflect their needs and values of their communities and to help hold individuals accountable when someone misuses the system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But one thing is clear: The technology that made Flock a billion dollar business is turning it into what some see as a villain.<\/p>\n

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Langley was an electrical engineer in metro Atlanta, hit by a string of break-ins, when he started asking why local police had so little to work with. \u201cDue to a lack of investigative evidence, over 80% of property crime is never solved,\u201d he later wrote in a company profile posted on Y Combinator\u2019s site. \u201cThere was a clear gap in the market, left unfilled by ineffectual alarm systems and expensive, outdated traditional security cameras,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWith the right team, technology, and policies, we could actually not only solve, but eliminate crime.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Langley recruited two former colleagues\u2014Matt Feury and Paige Todd. According to a16z\u2019s announcement of Flock\u2019s Series D (which the VC firm led in 2021), the three built their first prototype at Langley\u2019s kitchen table in three weeks. Homeowners associations were the earliest customers, making up more than 40% of Flock\u2019s business four years in before law enforcement contracts came to dominate. At the time of the funding, a16z general partners David Ulevitch and David George called the company an \u201cn of 1\u201d startup, noting it was \u201ceffectively the only game in town.\u201d Tiger Global led the Series E in February 2022, a $150 million round at a $3.5 billion valuation, joined by new investors 776 and Spark Capital alongside returning backers a16z, Bedrock, Matrix, Meritech and Initialized. By March 2025, Flock raised another $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation in a round led again by a16z, with participation from Greenoaks, Sands Capital, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global and Y Combinator. Neither a16z nor Tiger responded to Fortune\u2019s <\/em>requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Investors have no doubt been thrilled with the growth, but some residents in Flock-patrolled areas are rebelling. In July, angry citizens cut down Flock cameras with an electric saw in upstate New York; they threw paint on them in Oakland, California; and rammed a truck into one in Idaho. One man in Florida has taken to sitting in a lawn chair holding a piece of cardboard on a pole to block a camera\u2019s view. Just this week, a man dressed up as Darth Vader showed up at a San Diego meeting to \u201cpraise\u201d the city\u2019s use of Flock cameras. Flock cameras have now been vandalized in at least 36 states, according to NPR. Asked about the vandalism, Langley said that people engaging in it likely aren\u2019t being told they may be committing a felony, and said residents with concerns about the technology should raise them with their city council rather than the cameras themselves.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore a Washington Post<\/em> investigation found nearly 50 cases of officers charged with or accused of misusing the cameras, many involving tracking current or former romantic partners. The Institute for Justice keeps a public database of more than 150 documented cases nationwide, sorted into four types\u2014stalking, non-law-enforcement use, misread errors, and other misuse\u2014drawn from media reports and public records. IJ says this is likely an undercount, since officers rarely have to give a specific reason for a search.<\/p>\n

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In March, Boston, Flagstaff and Santa Clara all suspended or ended their Flock contracts after Amazon\u2019s Ring pulled its Flock integration in the wake of backlash to a Super Bowl ad. Reporting by the San Francisco Standard found 82 Flock contracts terminated across 28 states between August 2021 and May 2026, with 39 of them in just the first five months of this year alone. Still, Langely told Fortune <\/em>these were not affecting business. \u201cFlock continues to bring on significantly more customers than are leaving. We are growing our customer base at ten times the rate of customer churn, and agencies are turning more to Flock every day to help deter crime and make their communities safer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not every city ends up on the cancellation list, even after loud public pressure. Peter K. Jackson, counsel at Greenberg Glusker, pointed to West Hollywood, which he said renewed its Flock contract without amendment \u201cdespite a tremendous public rancor at various city council meetings.\u201d Jackson told Fortune<\/em> that outcome is partly due to a structural quirk: West Hollywood doesn\u2019t run its own police department, relying instead on the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department for policing, meaning the city council isn\u2019t the only party with a say in whether the cameras stay. Jackson suggested that may have given council members reason to hesitate before cutting a tool the county sheriff\u2019s office had come to rely on, even as residents packed meetings to object.<\/p>\n

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Many of the cities that are, however, cancelling contracts have city council meetings that sometimes share similar themes: a growing resentment against surveillance technology and data collection.<\/p>\n

Privacy advocates are particularly worried about long or lax retention periods that mean data is searchable for months or even years. \u201cFlock\u2019s standard retention period is thirty (30) calendar days from the date of capture. This standard retention period applies to all customer data, unless otherwise specified in the individual customer\u2019s agreement,\u201d read Flock\u2019s Evidence Policy. Then last week, Flock recommended a default to seven days, and introduced \u201cEvidence Mode,\u201d letting detectives preserve specific data past that window for active cases. Langley wrote that Flock\u2019s own analysis found \u201cover 90% of searches without a full plate are done within a week,\u201d and that \u201cevery community will continue to choose the retention period that fits its public safety strategy.\u201d But Tom Bowman, policy counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology\u2019s Security & Surveillance Project, told Fortune<\/em> that the policy changes still leaves it up to the customer. \u201cThis is just a recommendation,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is not legally binding.\u201d The real retention period for that city is whatever its own contract says.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s something confirmed by a government audit of one of Flock\u2019s largest customers. In July, the Los Angeles Police Department was renegotiating its own Flock agreement over data-ownership concerns. Around the same time, the department\u2019s own Inspector General its Flock contracts and published the findings. One of its agreements lets Flock \u201cretain the right to use the foregoing for any purpose in Flock\u2019s sole discretion,\u201d while a separate agreement grants the company rights to use anonymized footage for \u201ctraining of machine learning algorithms.\u201d The report continued quoting the agreement: \u201cFlock shall retain all data collected for five years at no charge to the Department or City\u201d\u201460 times longer than Flock\u2019s \u201cstandard\u201d 30-day policy, and more than 260 times longer than the 7-day figure the company spent last week promoting publicly.<\/p>\n

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Privacy advocates say this is the real danger: a simple surveillance camera tracks your passing of a certain location at that point in time. This, on the other hand, can potentially follow your every move. \u201cALPR systems have become so ubiquitous that they are not just tracking your location at a single point in time, but they are tracking your pattern of movements,\u201d Bowman explained. \u201cThey can essentially reconstruct your entire daily life: where you go to sleep, where you go to work, where you go to service, so on and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the LAPD\u2019s ongoing renegotiation, Langley told ABC7 that \u201cthe technology is really simple.\u201d He explained: \u201cA car drives by, we take a picture. It\u2019s a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate. That\u2019s what the technology is. It\u2019s actually not that complicated, it\u2019s pretty simple.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Jackson and McKenna say Flock\u2019s language of \u201ccustomers own the data\u201d can be true, but that also doesn\u2019t mean Flock also can\u2019t retain the data and use it to train its technology. Currently, LAPD responded to its audit by drafting new contract language that would explicitly bar any vendor from using city data \u201cto train, fine-tune, or improve any algorithm or artificial-intelligence system\u201d going forward.<\/p>\n

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Michael de Dora, U.S. advocacy lead at Access Now, told Fortune<\/em> a larger issue is what happens once that data crosses jurisdictions. Once police departments have a contract with Flock, he said, they \u201ccan then go to other police departments and agencies and say, \u2018Hey, let\u2019s pull all this Flock information together,’\u201d creating what he called \u201ca searchable, shareable historical database of the whereabouts of Americans\u201d that is, in his words, \u201ca totally unregulated space right now.\u201d A retention limit set by one city\u2019s contract, in other words, doesn\u2019t necessarily bind what happens to that same data once another agency has pulled a copy of it.<\/p>\n

The question of cross-jurisdictional data sharing is already playing out. IJ\u2019s database documented a Johnson County, Texas sheriff\u2019s deputy who ran a nationwide Flock search for a woman suspected of having had an abortion, in May 2025. Another case stems from Wisconsin in which officers, in released court records under probable cause, searched for a man because his \u201cvehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there\u201d and searched his car for marijuana.<\/p>\n

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Both McKenna and Bowman connect the contract fight to a bigger, unresolved legal one. Courts have long held that a driver on a public road has no reasonable expectation of privacy, but McKenna argues that no longer holds up cleanly. <\/p>\n

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Bowman pointed to United States v. Chatrie<\/em>, decided this year, which held that police accessing precise location history is a search requiring a warrant regardless of scope, precedent he argues could extend to ALPR networks that, at scale, can rebuild someone\u2019s entire daily movement rather than capturing one plate at one intersection.<\/p>\n

\u201cLaw enforcement can circumvent the Fourth Amendment simply by pulling out their wallet and buying that data,\u201d he said, a gap privacy advocates have been trying to close for years. \u201cThe Fourth Amendment\u2019s Not For Sale Act is a bill that has been introduced in multiple Congresses that continuously receive support and then gets blocked at the last minute,\u201d Bowman said. If it ever passed, he argues, it would functionally require a warrant before police could buy the kind of location data ALPR networks generate, which is why he doesn\u2019t expect Flock to support it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cALPR systems have become so ubiquitous that they are not just tracking your location at a single point in time, but they are tracking your pattern of movements,\u201d Bowman said, \u201cThey can essentially reconstruct your entire daily life: where you go to sleep, where you go to work, where you go to service.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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