The privacy issues over the company’s surveillance cameras cause momentum in schools all over the country
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Logan Ivey, who goes by heckin.sick on Instagram, cobbled together a fake Flock camera with a motion-activated light and a discarded solar panel. And when you open the connected junction box at the bottom of the telephone pole, you’ll find a tiny library of Game Boy games. [Media: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DfaJGKqKXOF/]
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The concerns range from privacy to how data is shared (and with whom) to procurement concerns.
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LA recently decided to move forward with installing hundreds of Axon’s ALPRs after it cut ties with the scandal-plagued Flock. Now Axon is facing a class action suit, suggesting people’s problem is less with Flock specifically and more with the AI-powered surveillance state in general. According to Reuters: > The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco by law firms Hausfeld and Gibbs Mura, alleges Axon has failed to comply with a California privacy provision by not disclosing how it collects, uses and shares plate data gathered through its camera systems. “Axon has created a mass-surveillance infrastructure that is practically impossible to avoid,” the lawsuit said.
In Flock Safety’s hometown of Atlanta, the business is being increasingly met by opposition and facing new regulations governing the city’s extensive camera networks.
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Cities are canceling Flock contracts, but the company won’t take them down and sometimes is reinstalling them.
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Over the weekend, the three-year deal for Flock Safety’s 138 pole-mounted surveillance cameras came to an end, as the LA Times reports the LAPD CIO says it ended the arrangement while working on a new contract that has “very clear terms” about who owns the data collected and what happens to it. An unnamed spokesperson for Flock told media outlets that unspecified “misconceptions” led to the pause. [Link: LAPD suspends use of Flock surveillance cameras over privacy issues | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-11/lapd-suspends-use-of-flock-surveillance-cameras-over-privacy-issues | Los Angeles Times]
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In July, the LAPD suspended its use of Flock’s cameras over concerns about how the company was handling its data. Now it’s rolling out hundreds of ALPRs from competitor Axon. The company has so far escaped the backlash Flock faced, but it’ll likely face growing scrutiny as it fills the gaps left by canceled Flock contracts. [Link: Amid Flock backlash, LAPD moves forward with license plate readers from another company | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-29/flock-safety-lapd-axon-contract | Los Angeles Times]
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Florida county claims it lacks resources to find owners of unpermitted Flock cameras.
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The wife of a former police officer who says he was fired for using Flock has come forward to defend him. Mariam Dula says her husband, Randy Dula, used the technology to find his wife as she often suffered from diabetic emergencies. It’s a crime in Georgia to use Flock outside of law enforcement purposes. Dula is appealing his termination, his attorney says.
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Searching for the ‘silent majority’ of supporters for Flock’s surveillance technology in one West Virginia town.
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SPD officer Amber Harpe was fired for sharing her Flock access with her ICE agent husband.
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Did Flock even try to protect these AI camera feeds?
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Want a recap of all the abuses of Flock? A look at its failures to properly secure its system? An examination of its efficacy? Well, it’s all here, along with possible solutions to the problems of warrantless AI surveillance — including a prototype secure dumb camera. [Media: https://youtu.be/OP5GDiLZ1Nw]
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The map comes from security researcher Joshua Michael, who is facing a trademark complaint from Flock after he published an interactive map of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) using information from a data leak. Proton is now hosting the map, but notes that it’s a snapshot from December 2025, so “devices installed or removed since then won’t be reflected.” [Link: Flock camera map: Find the Flock cameras watching you | https://proton.me/flock-camera-map | Proton]
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At TechCrunch Disrupt, Flock CEO Garrett Langley defended his company's surveillance technology despite growing privacy concerns, arguing that its crime-fighting benefits outweigh the risks of abuse.
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Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.