A growing number of law enforcement agencies are cutting ties with Flock Safety's surveillance network. Here's why — and who's leading the way.
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Year-long controversy over ICE access to Flock data; replaced by Axon
Left Flock: Feb 2026Police audit found ATF, Air Force, and GSA Inspector General accessed data without authorization
Left Flock: Feb 2026Flock installed cameras without city awareness after Council suspended the system
Left Flock: Dec 2025Flock shared data with CBP in violation of Illinois law; city called breach 'intentional and unauthorized'
Left Flock: Aug 2025Over 30 community groups pressured city council; audit found 20%+ of searches lacked documentation
Left Flock: Jun 2025Privacy concerns and lack of independent oversight
Left Flock: Aug 2023“We believe our residents deserve to know they aren't being tracked every time they drive through our town.”
— Chief Ronald Smith
Virginia's survey of ALPR compliance found 21% of agencies kept data beyond the 21-day legal limit, 21 agencies gave continuous out-of-state access, 9 shared with federal agencies (both prohibited), 16% had no ALPR policy, and 35% hadn't notified the public. Nearly a third of agencies didn't even respond.
A Flock ALPR misread a character on a family's license plate, flagging their SUV as stolen. Both parents were handcuffed while their infant was in the vehicle. The officer blamed the error on a license plate frame. After releasing the family, officers accidentally drove away with their keys.
Gibbs Mura and Milberg PLLC filed a class action alleging Flock violated California's ALPR Privacy Act by sharing license plate data with out-of-state agencies. Out-of-state agencies searched SFPD's Flock database 1.6 million times in seven months.
Federal agencies including the FBI, ATF, and GSA accessed El Cerrito's ALPR data without the department's knowledge from installation. Even after safeguards were installed, federal agencies breached the system two more times — USPS Inspection Service and VA Police.
Profiles the DeFlock grassroots movement with at least 15 local anti-Flock groups organizing across the country. At least 30 localities have canceled or paused contracts since early 2025. Flock CEO Garrett Langley called DeFlock a 'terroristic organization.'
Milwaukee Officer Josue Ayala ran 179 unauthorized Flock searches — 55 times on a woman he was dating and 124 times on her ex-partner. The misuse wasn't caught by internal monitoring — one victim found their plate on HaveIBeenFlocked.com. Ayala resigned before his court date.