Flock Safety
Flock Group Inc., doing business as Flock Safety, is a mass surveillance corporation, which was founded in 2017 by Garrett Langley, Matt Feury, and Paige Todd. They utilize Artificial Intelligence/machine learning, computer vision, and other modern technologies to identify and locate/track people and vehicles. They also offer gunshot locator (listening) devices, which in 2025, also began analyzing human voice.[1][2]
Systems
Automated License Plate Readers
Traditional Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) read license plates, and create a log of every license plate entering or leaving a location, with its time/date stamp.[3] Flock's ALPRs do this as well, but they also collect dozens of other data points about every vehicle, including, make, model, color, modifications (custom rims, trailer hitches, etc), visible damage, and photos of bumper stickers.[4][5] Flock uses all of these data points to create what they call a "Vehicle Fingerprint"[6] which can be used to track that vehicle even if the license plate is obscured or removed.[7] Every vehicle passing by is scanned and indexed, with its location and time included. This data, including photos, are uploaded using a cellular connection to Flock Nova, their analytics and search platform.[8] As that vehicle continues to drive, it will continue passing numerous ALPRs along its journey, enabling near-realtime location tracking of the vehicle, as well as the personal identification of the driver.
The Flock ALPR product line, is named, "falcon." The standard model runs on an Android OS, with a Snapdragon 625 processor, 2GB RAM, 29GB storage, Wi-Fi, GPS, and onboard AI (YOLO + OpenCV)[9] There are several variants, including a long range, short range, and "flex" option (for temporary installation).
Facial Recognition Cameras
Flock also offers surveillance cameras which can scan faces in order to identify everyone in the surveillance area. These typically have the additional ability to scan license places, but they are intended primarily to identify and track individuals in public spaces using face scans.[10] These were found in early 2026 to contain major cybersecurity issues (ignoring the privacy and legal issues), but Flock chose to deny the existence of those problems, while threatening to file lawsuits against the security researchers who discovered the problems.[11]
Flock offers both PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) Condor cameras, designed to be remotely controlled (by a human or the Flock AI), and "Condor Bullet" cameras, intended for fixed installation.
Gunshot Locator and Voice Analysis
Autonomous Drones
References
- ↑ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices
- ↑ https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/flock-listening-city/
- ↑ https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/saver/automatic-license-plate-readers
- ↑ https://www.flocksafety.com/not-all-lprs-are-created-equal
- ↑ https://www.flocksafety.com/products/license-plate-readers
- ↑ https://www.myvendorlink.com/external/vfile?d=vrf&s=137266&v=76605&sv=0&i=4&ft=b
- ↑ https://www.stopflock.com/
- ↑ https://www.flocksafety.com/products/flock-nova
- ↑ https://eyesoffcr.org/blog/blog-8.html
- ↑ https://www.flocksafety.com/webinar/introducing-condor-live-and-recorded-video
- ↑ https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/14/flock-condor-camera-spy-public/