Flock Safety job cuts will remove about 270 people, roughly 18% of the staff at the Atlanta company behind America’s largest network of AI-powered licence plate cameras. Reuters reported the plan on 8 October 2026, citing people with direct knowledge of it, and said the departing employees will leave at the end of the month. Flock declined to comment to Reuters. A day later it told TechCrunch and The Hill that it had offered “a generous Voluntary Separation Program” and that “this was a voluntary program, not a layoff”.
The Flock Safety job cuts land in the middle of the fiercest backlash a surveillance vendor has faced in the United States. Cities are ending contracts at a record pace, two Republican governors have cut the company off, bills in Congress take aim at it, and a federal judge has just called its technology “indiscriminate mass surveillance”. This article sets out what is confirmed, how the buyout worked, why the backlash reached the payroll, where Flock is still hiring, and what any organisation buying camera analytics should learn from it as part of its data protection planning.
Table of contents
- What the Flock Safety Job Cuts Involve
- From Buyout to Flock Safety Job Cuts: A 41-Day Timeline
- Why the Backlash Led to the Flock Safety Job Cuts
- Governments Turn on Flock Before the Flock Safety Job Cuts
- The Money Behind the Flock Safety Job Cuts
- Where Flock Is Still Hiring After the Flock Safety Job Cuts
- What the Flock Safety Job Cuts Mean for Buyers of Surveillance Tech
- What to Watch After the Flock Safety Job Cuts
- Frequently Asked Questions About the Flock Safety Job Cuts
- References
What the Flock Safety Job Cuts Involve
The core facts come from a Reuters exclusive by Krystal Hu and Helen Coster, filed late on Thursday 8 October US time. Every later report, from TechCrunch and Engadget to Mother Jones and The Guardian, which ran the Reuters copy in full, builds on it. The Flock Safety job cuts are therefore sourced to unnamed insiders, with a company statement that confirms the programme but not the numbers.
What Reuters reported about the Flock Safety job cuts
According to Reuters, Flock plans to let go of about 18% of its employees, or roughly 270 people. The cuts “came after a voluntary buyout program”, and the affected staff “will leave the company at the end of the month”. The sources asked not to be named “as the company has yet to make the plan public”. Reuters put Flock’s headcount at about 1,500, the same figure WIRED gave in September, which makes the 18% and the 270 consistent with each other.
What Flock says about the Flock Safety job cuts
Flock spokesperson Paris Lewbel gave TechCrunch the company’s only on-record statement: “Flock recently offered current employees a generous Voluntary Separation Program as part of our efforts to position the company for its next phase of growth. This was a voluntary program, not a layoff, and reflects our continued focus on building a strong, sustainable business for the future.” The Hill received the same wording. Flock declined to confirm the percentages to The Hill, and it would not tell TechCrunch whether chief executive Garrett Langley or other executives took a pay cut.
What is still unconfirmed
Two gaps matter. First, nobody has said how many of the 270 departures are buyouts the staff asked for and how many, if any, are cuts the company imposed once applications closed. Engadget noted that “it is unclear how many of the employees in these upcoming layoffs are leaving voluntarily”. Second, Flock has not said which teams are shrinking. The job board covered later in this article gives some clues, because it shows where the company is still adding people.
| Claim | Source | Status on 11 October |
|---|---|---|
| About 270 employees, roughly 18% | Reuters, unnamed people with direct knowledge | Not confirmed or denied by Flock |
| Staff leave at the end of October | Reuters; WIRED’s copy of the internal email says 29 October | Consistent across sources |
| “A voluntary program, not a layoff” | Flock spokesperson to TechCrunch and The Hill | Company position |
| Headcount of about 1,500 | Reuters and WIRED | Consistent across sources |
| Executive pay cuts | Asked by TechCrunch | Flock would not comment |
The arithmetic is simple: 270 of 1,500 is 18%, which leaves roughly 1,230 people at Flock once the Flock Safety job cuts take effect.
From Buyout to Flock Safety Job Cuts: A 41-Day Timeline
The Flock Safety job cuts did not arrive out of nowhere. They are the end point of a buyout that WIRED revealed on 18 September, working from an internal email. WIRED’s reporters Paresh Dave and Dhruv Mehrotra set out the dates in that email, and every one of them has since held. Counting from the day applications opened to the day most leavers walk out gives 41 days: 12 left in September after the 18th, plus 29 in October.
18 September: the voluntary separation programme opens
Flock announced the programme on Friday 18 September and opened applications the same day. The email said the company expected to grant buyouts “to the majority of workers who apply”. People familiar with it told WIRED that “a significant number” of the roughly 1,500 staff might try to leave. One of them said that without buyouts Flock “almost certainly would have to lay off some staff”. In hindsight that was an early warning of the Flock Safety job cuts Reuters described three weeks later.
What the buyout offered
Flock’s internal announcement called the package the “most generous” it had ever offered, roughly double its previous severance terms. It said the scheme gave workers “greater agency” and “treats employees with transparency, respect, and choice”. Some employees reported offers “in the range of tens of thousands of dollars”. The package also included several months of health care cover and the right to exercise stock options for up to two years after leaving, which is longer than Flock normally gives people who resign. Terms that generous were designed to fill as much of the Flock Safety job cuts as possible with volunteers.
9 October decisions and the 29 October exit
Applications closed on Friday 2 October. Staff were due to hear whether they had been accepted on Friday 9 October, the day after the Reuters report. Most accepted employees would leave by Thursday 29 October, although Flock said it might ask some to stay for another one to three months. That extension means the last of the Flock Safety job cuts could take effect as late as the end of January 2027.
| Date (2026) | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 18 September | Voluntary separation programme announced, applications open | WIRED, internal email |
| Friday 2 October | Application deadline | WIRED, Inc. |
| Thursday 8 October | Reuters reports about 270 cuts, 18% of staff | Reuters |
| Friday 9 October | Staff learn outcomes; Flock calls it “not a layoff” | WIRED; TechCrunch; The Hill |
| Thursday 29 October | Most accepted employees leave | WIRED, internal email |
| Late November to late January 2027 | Some leavers asked to stay one to three extra months | WIRED, internal email |
Why the Backlash Led to the Flock Safety Job Cuts
Flock’s cameras sit on poles beside roads and photograph every passing vehicle. Its software reads the plate and records a “vehicle signature” of make, model, colour and features such as bumper stickers, then lets police search those records across jurisdictions. Reuters counts about 120,000 cameras in 49 states, serving more than 4,800 law enforcement agencies and nearly 1,000 businesses. That reach is exactly what turned a niche policing tool into a national argument, and the argument into the Flock Safety job cuts.
Contract cancellations hit a record
Secure Justice, a Bay Area privacy nonprofit, keeps a community-maintained spreadsheet of every city, county, sheriff and institution that has terminated, suspended or declined to renew a Flock deal. We downloaded it on 10 October. It held 423 actions across 37 states, and 378 of them are dated 2026. August and September logged 138 each, against 26 in July. October had 14 more in its first eight days, including Reno in Nevada, Henrico County in Virginia, and a Milwaukee County vote to take cameras out of its parks.
The sheet is still being backfilled. At the time, WIRED cited 93 cancellations for August and Mother Jones cited 90, so the August total has grown by about half as more entries were found. Either way, two people told WIRED that dropped and unrenewed contracts “could leave it short of revenue goals”. That is the most direct link anyone has drawn between the cancellations and the Flock Safety job cuts.
Monthly contract actions in 2026 jumped more than fivefold between July and August, from 26 to 138, and stayed there through September.
Vandalism pushed up costs
People familiar with Flock’s finances told WIRED that “a wave of vandalism targeting its cameras has unexpectedly increased expenses”. NPR reported in August that Flock cameras had been vandalised in at least 36 states. Fortune listed cameras cut down with an electric saw in upstate New York, splashed with paint in Oakland and rammed with a truck in Idaho. One WIRED source said that the scale of the vandalism alone made it clear something at the company had to change. Higher repair and replacement bills are one more cost pressure behind the Flock Safety job cuts.
Police misuse cases kept coming
The most damaging stories were about officers using Flock to follow people they knew. A Washington Post investigation identified 46 cases of officers accused of misusing the system, many involving current or former partners. A Kentucky officer was arrested after allegedly tracking his ex-girlfriend more than 2,000 times, and six employees of the Savannah police department in Georgia were fired in August. A former Milwaukee officer pleaded guilty after 179 searches for his then-partner and her ex. None of these cases involved Flock staff, but each one fed the cancellations that came before the Flock Safety job cuts.
Public opinion is split, not hostile
The polling is less one-sided than the cancellations suggest. A Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on 31 August found 38% of Americans support Flock cameras in their community and 47% oppose them, leaving 15% in neither camp. The split runs on party lines: 54% of Republicans were in favour, while the same share of Democrats were against. Even so, ACLU analyst Jay Stanley told ABC News it was “the biggest, most grassroots privacy backlash” he had seen in more than 20 years. A split public is enough to move a council vote, and council votes, not national polls, decide the contracts behind the Flock Safety job cuts.
Governments Turn on Flock Before the Flock Safety Job Cuts
Political pressure built in the six weeks before the Flock Safety job cuts, and it came from both parties. That matters to buyers, because a vendor squeezed by the left and the right at once has fewer places to turn. New York’s governor, as we reported in our piece on Kathy Hochul’s view that AI should be “less evil”, had already said the state had no Flock contract and wanted human review of any matches.
Florida and Texas pull state support
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras on 28 August, as The Texas Tribune prepared an investigation showing a state agency had steered at least $30 million into the network. By 24 September at least 14 Texas cities and counties had switched off more than 900 Flock cameras. Kyle, which voted 6-1 to keep Flock on 5 September, voted on 5 October to switch its cameras off until spring 2027. Every camera switched off is a subscription Flock no longer bills, which is the commercial thread that runs from Texas council chambers to the Flock Safety job cuts.
Three days after Abbott’s order, on 31 August, Florida’s Department of Transportation revoked permits for licence plate readers on state highway land and gave police 30 days to remove them. Governor Ron DeSantis had said: “I don’t want to have this become a surveillance state.”
Congress targets the cameras
Republican Senator Josh Hawley opened an investigation in late August and later led a Senate hearing on AI surveillance camera makers. Republican Representative Thomas Massie unveiled the Flock-Off Act to block federal money for the cameras, and The Guardian reports that Democrat Ro Khanna is co-sponsoring Massie’s bill. On 2 October Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Jeff Merkley and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Ban Flock Act. It would bar federal agencies from licence plate readers and strip some federal grants from state and local governments that keep using them.
None of these bills has passed, but they kept Flock in the headlines through the buyout weeks that led to the Flock Safety job cuts.
South Carolina’s attorney general asks questions
On 2 October South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, a Republican, wrote to Garrett Langley asking how Flock uses AI, who can reach its shared data network and what retention rules apply. “Given Flock’s broad reach, covering more than 120,000 cameras across 49 states, the stakes are particularly high,” said Wilson, who is also running for governor. He gave the company 30 days to respond, which sets a deadline of 1 November, just after most Flock Safety job cuts take effect.
A federal judge calls it mass surveillance
In the week before the Reuters report, a federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that a Tulsa sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights by searching Flock for her plate without a warrant. Judge Sara Hill said he had “no apparent reason” beyond her California licence plate, and suppressed the evidence that followed, including 91 pounds of methamphetamine the deputy allegedly found in her car. “This is a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance,” she wrote. The ruling binds no other court, but it is one of the first of its kind.
| When (2026) | Who | Action |
|---|---|---|
| July | Los Angeles Police Department | Let its three-year Flock contract expire over privacy concerns |
| Late August | Sen. Josh Hawley (R) | Opened an investigation and requested internal documents |
| 28 August | Gov. Greg Abbott (R), Texas | Paused state funding for Flock cameras |
| 31 August | Florida Department of Transportation | Revoked highway permits; 30 days to remove readers |
| Late summer | Rep. Thomas Massie (R), Rep. Ro Khanna (D) | Flock-Off Act to block federal funds for the cameras |
| 2 October | Sanders, Merkley, Ocasio-Cortez | Ban Flock Act to bar federal use of plate readers |
| 2 October | South Carolina AG Alan Wilson (R) | Letter to Flock’s CEO with a 30-day reply window |
| Week to 3 October | Federal judge Sara Hill, Oklahoma | Warrantless Flock search ruled unconstitutional |
The Money Behind the Flock Safety Job Cuts
Flock is not a struggling seed-stage startup. It is one of the best-funded startups in the American South, and its own growth claims sit awkwardly beside the Flock Safety job cuts. Understanding the money also exposes an error in the coverage, because the most widely repeated funding figure is out of date.
Reuters used an old funding figure
Reuters wrote that Flock “has raised over $950 million… with its latest $275 million round in March led by Andreessen Horowitz valuing the company at $7.5 billion”. That round closed in March 2025, not March 2026. Flock told Fortune in April 2026 that it had raised $500 million at an $8.3 billion valuation, taking its total to $1.2 billion. WIRED also gives “more than $8 billion” for a round that closed in April, and about $1.2 billion raised. Outlets that copied Reuters’ figures therefore understate both the valuation and the total.
The correction matters for reading the Flock Safety job cuts: a company that raised $500 million six months ago is unlikely to be cutting staff simply to survive the year.
| Figure | Reuters, 8 October 2026 | Flock to Fortune, April 2026 | WIRED, 18 September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valuation | $7.5bn | $8.3bn | More than $8bn |
| Total raised | Over $950m | $1.2bn | About $1.2bn |
| Latest round | $275m “in March” (the March 2025 round) | $500m | Closed in April 2026 |
| Annual recurring revenue | Not given | Over $500m in the first half of 2026 | Not given |
Flock’s valuation has risen in every round on record, from $3.5 billion in February 2022 to $8.3 billion in April 2026, about 2.4 times higher.
Growth claims versus cancellations
Flock insists business is strong. Langley told Fortune the company is “growing our customer base at 10 times the rate of customer churn”, and a spokesperson told Ars Technica that new city partnerships had outpaced non-renewals by “approximately 10 to 1” in 2026. Flock also told Fortune that more than half of its new revenue now comes from products other than plate readers, such as video, gunshot detection and drones. Those claims and the Flock Safety job cuts can both be true if the cuts reflect a change of product mix rather than shrinking demand.
What the cut does to revenue per employee
A rough calculation shows why investors might welcome the Flock Safety job cuts even in a growing business. Using Flock’s own figure of more than $500 million in annual recurring revenue, 1,500 staff works out at about $333,000 each. Spread across about 1,230 staff, the same revenue becomes about $406,500 each, an increase of roughly 22%. On cameras, 120,000 divided by 1,500 is 80 per employee; divided by 1,230 it is about 98. Both are floor estimates, since revenue is still growing.
Where Flock Is Still Hiring After the Flock Safety Job Cuts
A company’s job board is a useful check on its press statements. On the evening of 10 October, Flock Safety’s public careers board, hosted on Ashby, listed 13 open roles. Five had been posted since the buyout opened on 18 September, and three since 1 October. None is a sales role. The openings lean towards drones, hardware and AI, which supports reading the Flock Safety job cuts as a reshaping as much as a retreat.
Drones, assembly and field work
Seven of the 13 roles involve hardware. Three are for drones, which Flock calls UAS: a UAS Support Engineer, a UAS Flight Test Engineer and an Assembly Technician for airframes, all in Atlanta. Four more are an Assembly Technician in Atlanta and Field Technicians in Denver, Phoenix and Detroit. That matches Reuters’ note that Flock’s recent funding paid for “a new US manufacturing facility and an upcoming push into drone products”. On the evidence of the job board, the hardware side looks largely untouched by the Flock Safety job cuts.
Product, software and AI support roles
The other six include two senior product managers, one for platform and integrations and one for video, both remote. There is a senior full-stack software engineer, an FP&A manager and an office coordinator. The newest listing, posted on 6 October, is for a “CX AI Conversational Designer” in customer experience.
Video and AI-powered search are among the products Fortune lists in Flock’s expansion, and WIRED has reported on Flock tools that search camera feeds for people matching written descriptions, a task that relies on AI models able to match images to text. Flock is still recruiting for that kind of work even as the Flock Safety job cuts take effect.
| Area | Open roles | Listings (location) |
|---|---|---|
| Drones (UAS) | 3 | UAS Support Engineer; UAS Flight Test Engineer; Assembly Technician, Airframes (all Atlanta) |
| Field and assembly | 4 | Field Technician (Denver, Phoenix, Detroit); Assembly Technician (Atlanta) |
| Product | 2 | Senior Product Manager, Platform and Integrations; Senior Product Manager, Video (remote) |
| Software engineering | 1 | Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack (remote) |
| Finance, office and customer experience | 3 | FP&A Manager (remote); Office Coordinator (Atlanta); CX AI Conversational Designer (remote) |
| Total | 13 | 5 posted since 18 September; 3 since 1 October |
What the Flock Safety Job Cuts Mean for Buyers of Surveillance Tech
Most readers of this site will never buy a Flock camera. Many will buy something like it: car park number plate recognition, smart CCTV, visitor analytics or an AI search tool laid over existing footage. The Flock Safety job cuts are a case study in what happens when a supplier’s technology becomes politically toxic, and the lessons carry over to any IT governance review of a surveillance contract.
Political risk is now vendor risk
Flock’s customers did not change their minds because the cameras stopped working. They changed because voters, governors and legislators made the product a liability, sometimes within weeks. When a supplier is under that kind of pressure, its roadmap, support staff and even ownership can change quickly, and the Flock Safety job cuts show how fast that reaches the people who support a customer’s system. WIRED’s sources described speculation that Flock “might resort to selling off parts or all of its business”.
The same dynamic is visible in the UK, where an NHS data deal drew fierce opposition, as our report on UK fears over Palantir’s health service contract shows.
Read the retention clause, not the press release
Flock’s evidence policy sets a “standard retention period” of 30 days, and in August it recommended a seven-day default plus an “Evidence Mode” for active cases. The Los Angeles Police Department’s inspector general found one Flock agreement that let the company keep data for five years and use it “for any purpose in Flock’s sole discretion”. Tom Bowman of the Center for Democracy and Technology told Fortune the seven-day setting “is just a recommendation”. Whatever a vendor announces, your retention period is whatever your contract says.
The UK already runs a national ANPR network
In Britain the closest equivalent is not a private network but the police-run National ANPR Service. Its data protection impact assessment, which GOV.UK last updated in July 2026, says 12,076 fixed camera sets and 1,878 mobile cameras submit more than 100 million reads a day, kept for 12 months. That is a smaller camera count than Flock’s but a longer retention period, under a single published assessment rather than thousands of local contracts. The Flock Safety job cuts will not change that system, but they show what British buyers of private camera networks could face.
| Measure | UK National ANPR Service | Flock network (US) |
|---|---|---|
| Cameras | 12,076 fixed sets plus 1,878 mobile | About 120,000 in 49 states |
| Who runs it | Police forces, through a Home Office national service | A private company; customers own their data |
| Default retention | 12 months unless preserved | 30 days standard; 7 days recommended since August; contracts vary |
| Governing document | One published DPIA on GOV.UK | Thousands of local contracts and state laws |
| Recent pressure | Long-running civil liberties scrutiny | 423 contract actions logged; bills in Congress; a court ruling |
For a UK business, the legal test is clear. Article 35 of the UK GDPR requires a data protection impact assessment for “systematic monitoring of a publicly accessible area on a large scale”, which covers most car park and forecourt number plate systems. The usual gaps are easy to predict: no assessment, vague retention terms and no record of who can search the data. A compliance review should check all three before a new camera goes up.
Questions to ask before you sign
The Flock Safety job cuts give every buyer a reason to re-read their surveillance contracts. The table below turns this year’s Flock controversies into questions you can put to any supplier.
| Question for the vendor | Why it matters, from the Flock story |
|---|---|
| How long is data kept, and who sets that? | One LAPD contract allowed five years, against a 30-day “standard” |
| Can you train AI models on our footage? | LAPD has drafted terms barring vendors from training AI on city data |
| Who else can search our data? | A Texas Tribune analysis found more than 2,800 agencies had tapped the state police network without agreements |
| How are unusual searches flagged? | Flock now locks officers out pending review when its audit tool flags a search |
| What happens when the contract ends? | At least three towns said cameras were reinstalled or reactivated after they ended contracts |
| How financially secure is the supplier? | Buyouts, an 18% cut and talk of asset sales all came within three weeks |
What to Watch After the Flock Safety Job Cuts
The next four weeks will show whether the Flock Safety job cuts are a one-off reset or the start of a longer contraction. Four dates and signals stand out.
Langley on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt
TechCrunch says it will interview Garrett Langley on stage at its Disrupt conference in San Francisco, which runs from 13 to 15 October, less than a week after the Reuters report. Langley has previously called for a “compromise” between privacy and safety, apologised to women stalked by officers using Flock, and said on the All-In podcast that “the biggest damage is internal morale”. Expect questions about the 270 departures.
South Carolina’s 1 November deadline
Flock’s reply to Alan Wilson is due by 1 November. Its answers on AI use, data sharing across customers and mandatory retention will be the clearest public account yet of how the network works, and other attorneys general may follow. The reply lands three days after the main wave of the Flock Safety job cuts, so it will also show how the slimmer company handles regulatory work.
The 3 November midterms
Reuters notes that Flock cameras, along with AI data centres, have become a flashpoint in this year’s midterm elections. In Texas, one Laredo council member predicted Abbott’s funding freeze would lift if the governor is re-elected. Laredo itself will ask voters in May whether to spend $1 million a year keeping 165 cameras running. The results will show whether the backlash outlasts the campaign season, and whether the Flock Safety job cuts are the last round or the first.
More court rulings and lawsuits
Judge Hill’s ruling binds no other court, but defence lawyers will cite it. Reuters also points to a privacy lawsuit in Virginia arguing that blanket camera deployment amounts to warrantless surveillance, and Home Depot faced a shareholder proposal in January asking it to review how its Flock data is shared. A string of similar rulings would hurt Flock’s pitch to police more than any headline about the Flock Safety job cuts. Similar questions now surround Clearview AI’s new tool for police.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Flock Safety Job Cuts
How many jobs is Flock Safety cutting?
The Flock Safety job cuts affect about 270 people, according to sources who spoke to Reuters. That is roughly 18% of a workforce of about 1,500. Flock has not confirmed either number, and it declined to discuss the percentage with The Hill.
Are the Flock Safety job cuts layoffs or buyouts?
Flock says it ran a voluntary separation programme and that “this was a voluntary program, not a layoff”. Reuters describes job cuts that followed the buyout. WIRED’s sources said Flock would almost certainly have needed layoffs if too few people volunteered, and it is not yet clear whether any of the 270 departures were compulsory.
When do the Flock Safety job cuts take effect?
Most leavers go by 29 October 2026, according to the internal email WIRED reviewed. Flock may ask some to stay for one to three more months, so the last departures could fall in late January 2027.
Why is Flock Safety facing a backlash?
Its roughly 120,000 cameras record every passing vehicle and let police search the data across agencies. Misuse by officers, data sharing with other agencies, retention terms, vandalism and a split public have driven 423 logged contract actions, state funding and permit cuts in Texas and Florida, bills in Congress and a court ruling against a warrantless search, all before the Flock Safety job cuts were reported.
Is Flock Safety in financial trouble?
Not on the numbers it has shared. Flock says annual recurring revenue passed $500 million in the first half of 2026 and that new customers outnumber departures about ten to one. WIRED’s sources said cancellations could leave it short of revenue goals and that vandalism raised costs, which suggests margins rather than survival are behind the Flock Safety job cuts.
What should UK organisations using number plate cameras do?
Check that a data protection impact assessment is in place, that the contract sets a clear retention period and bans AI training without consent, and that you know who else can search the data. Treat supplier stability as part of the risk, and review it alongside your wider AI strategy and privacy controls, as our analysis of AI agent privacy promises explains.
References
Surveillance company Flock cuts staff as privacy backlash grows (TechCrunch)
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee (WIRED)
Flock offers voluntary separation packages to staff amid camera backlash (The Hill)
Amid Backlash, Surveillance Company Flock Is Cutting Staff (Mother Jones)
Meet Flock, the $8 billion startup facing growing backlash (Fortune)
Ending Flock Contracts: A Tracker (Secure Justice)
Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’ (TechCrunch)
Sanders introduces bill to ban the federal government from using Flock (TechCrunch)
Texas funding freeze forces cities to address Flock use (The Texas Tribune)
FDOT revokes permits for Flock cameras (WUSF)
Alan Wilson demands answers from Flock on AI, privacy and who can access data (Fox Carolina)
Flock cameras trigger nationwide backlash over privacy concerns, police abuse (ABC News)
National ANPR Service: data protection impact assessment (GOV.UK)
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