GoKawiilFlock CEO says no police customer has been terminated over misuse
At TechCrunch's Disrupt 2026 conference, Flock CEO Garrett Langley said the company has never ended a contract with a police department over misuse of its license plate reader systems, despite numerous reports of officers abusing database access to stalk people. Langley said Flock would cut off a customer that knowingly broke the law, but has so far judged individual officer misconduct cases as not warranting termination of the underlying agency's access.
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The admission suggests Flock is weighing the risk of losing law enforcement revenue and community safety arguments against mounting evidence of misuse by individual officers. It indicates the company's enforcement standard requires proof of institutional or knowing wrongdoing rather than isolated abuse, which could shape how regulators and the public judge Flock's accountability going forward.
- Flock CEO says the company has never terminated a police department's access despite abuse reports
- Flock would cut off a customer only for 'knowingly' breaking the law, not isolated officer misconduct
- Flock operates over 100,000 cameras nationwide, enabling cross-jurisdiction tracking via a shared database
Source: techcrunch.com — Zack Whittaker, 2026-10-14
Published there as: “Flock CEO: We haven’t ‘fired’ any police departments as customers”
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