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Flock CEO Says No Police Contracts Cut Despite Misuse Reports
Flock chief executive Garrett Langley said the surveillance company has not canceled contracts with any police department or law enforcement agency, even as reporting documents officers abusing its license plate reader network.
Speaking with editor-in-chief Connie Loizos at the Disrupt 2026 conference in San Francisco, Langley responded to criticism over how police departments use the company's license plate reader cameras.
The remarks follow a stream of reporting identifying dozens of police officers who were arrested, fired or told to resign after being caught abusing access to Flock's nationwide database of license plate detections, in many cases to stalk people without permission.
Langley said Flock would end a relationship with a customer in cases where there was clear widespread abuse of its systems. But he said the company has not to date "fired" a customer, as he put it, such as a police department or law enforcement agency.
He said Flock debated the question internally before deciding it should not take its product away from a community that might need it to fight crime. "If a customer knowingly broke the law, we would fire them immediately. That's very easy," Langley said.
"Most of the debate is nuanced into 'what if two officers out of fifty were caught?'" he added. "Today, we haven't fired any customers, but it's not off the table in the case of some pretty drastic law-abiding issue."