Flock Safety
founded 2017
A private license-plate dragnet across thousands of US police departments — used to stalk, and quietly opened to federal search.
Flock Safety runs a cross-searchable license-plate reader network deployed by thousands of US police departments. Officers have used the database to stalk exes and romantic rivals, and dozens of cities have canceled contracts over federal and ICE access to the data.
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It runs a cross-searchable license-plate network that officers have used to stalk exes and run nationwide searches.
FACTDeployed by thousands of US police departments; documented misuse includes officers stalking former partners and a Texas sheriff's office running a nationwide search logged as abortion-related.
Dozens of cities canceled Flock over federal/ICE data access — some switched to Axon.
FACTAbout 53 cities (per aggregated reporting) canceled Flock license-plate-reader contracts over mass-surveillance and federal-access concerns; a documented subset replaced it with Axon.
It trained police to surveil protests — and wrote them a guide to defend the cameras.
FACTA leaked Flock webinar (404 Media, 2026) taught police to monitor protests via FlockOS, using a No Kings anti-Trump protest as the example; agencies used Flock plate-readers to track No Kings protesters and ran 4,000+ ICE/immigration-justified searches, and a leaked 'own the narrative' guide coached police to promote and defend Flock.
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