Flock

Flock Group Inc., doing business as Flock Safety, is a privately held American manufacturer and operator of surveillance hardware and software. Its product range covers automated license plate recognition (ALPR/LPR), video surveillance cameras, mobile security trailers, gunshot and audio detection, and drones, alongside software that integrates the data these devices collect. Software products include the Flock Safety Platform, FlockOS (a real-time crime center-style hub connecting devices, data and departments), Flock911 (streaming live 911 calls and cross-jurisdiction call visibility), Flock FreeForm (natural-language search across existing video and LPR systems), Investigations Manager, and the National LPR Network, which lets participating agencies receive alerts and footage from partners across the country. Devices are marketed as wireless and solar-powered for deployment without fixed infrastructure or permits.

Flock's ALPR cameras photograph passing vehicles and use computer vision to read license plates and other visual characteristics, transmitting data over cellular networks to servers that log the plate, time and location in a searchable database and compare results against the National Crime Information Center and state and local watchlists, alerting nearby officers on a match. The company describes "vehicle fingerprint technology" that identifies make, model, color and distinguishing attributes such as bumper stickers, dents, mismatched panels and temporary plates, and states its readers can capture vehicles traveling up to 100 mph at distances up to 75 feet regardless of lighting. Its Condor camera line tracks moving objects including people, and the company advertises the ability to identify people and vehicles. Products named Falcon and Sparrow have been described as traffic-monitoring cameras photographing the rear of passing vehicles.

The company sells across public sector (law enforcement, corrections, education and campus, parks, transportation, federal, public works, fire and EMS), residential (HOAs, multifamily communities, places of worship) and business segments (retail and grocery, healthcare, property management, retail banking, hospitality, logistics, corporate security, manufacturing and others). Flock publishes security certifications including SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, 27017, 27018, 27701 and 42001:2023, CJIS compliance, NDAA and TX-RAMP Level 2.

Founding story

Flock began as a side project of Georgia Tech alumni Garrett Langley, Paige Todd and Matt Feury, who built their first video surveillance cameras by hand around Langley's dining room table. After a DeKalb County detective told Langley the camera product had helped solve a home break-in, Langley called his two co-founders and told them to quit their jobs.

Business model

Flock contracts with law enforcement agencies, neighborhood and homeowner associations, schools, businesses and private property owners to deploy its cameras and devices and provide access to its software platform. The website markets subscription plans, including a "Safe City Subscription" offering access to all Flock solutions under one contract and invoice, and a modular platform intended to scale from small deployments upward.

Subscription/contract-based sales of hardware-plus-software public safety solutions; the company reported surpassing $300 million in annual recurring revenue as of its March 2025 funding announcement.

Traction

Wikipedia reports revenue of $300 million and 1,500 employees (2025), fixed cameras installed in over 4,000 cities across 42 states by 2024 and use by over 6,000 municipalities as of 2025, with over 20 billion vehicle scans per month in the US. Company materials cite more than 10,000 missing people located in 2025 (about 27 per day), one in five cleared cases involving Flock evidence where it is live, 42% of customers recovering more than half of stolen vehicles in their jurisdiction, and 1 million incidents supported. Tulsa Police Department is cited with a 100% homicide clearance rate in 2024.

Latest developments

In 2026 Flock published governance changes: reducing recommended default data retention from 30 days to 7 days, giving customers more control over cross-agency data sharing, expanding audit requirements and proactive misuse monitoring, mandating multi-factor authentication for all customers, and increasing transparency on data ownership and agency policies (announced 18 August 2026). In July 2026 cameras began being concealed inside speed readers. The planned Ring integration announced in October 2025 was cancelled after scrutiny of an Amazon Super Bowl LX advertisement depicting Ring's AI-enhanced "Search Party" feature.