Public-records releases, responsive documents, and lack thereof.
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It has been six months since Flock engaged Bishop Fox and promised the results of security audits would be "communicated transparently." To date, no security issues have been fixed, and no results have been communicated.
EFF proposes case-by-case balancing instead of exemptions. Front-loaded rulemaking and watchlist-based determinations would actually work.
On a Flock webinar, the company's policy lead denies a federal backdoor, then describes it ninety seconds later — while dismissing "claims in the media" as false.
Flock Safety's new CISO published a blog post defending the company's cybersecurity record. It relies on misquoted opponents, vibe-based severity ratings, and a conspicuous absence of actual evidence.
A newly surfaced email exchange reveals that Condor cameras silently generated vehicle data in August 2025. Flock blamed unreleased feature work. No one was formally notified.
800 custom hotlist entries from a Texas constable's office reveal vague reasons, indefinite surveillance, and instructions to manufacture probable cause.
Flock coaches police on denying records requests, inserts itself into the legal process, and sells a 'transparency portal' its own staff calls useless.
Flock says 28 employees can access federally protected criminal justice information. The paperwork disagrees.
Flock CEO Garrett Langley praises Minority Report's precrime program, conflates arrest with conviction, and deploys an evidence authentication system that wouldn't survive a first-year cross-examination.
Watching you watch me. Sideways.
Flock Safety hired Bishop Fox for adversarial security testing. Under CJIS rules, successful testing would trigger mandatory incident reporting—making competent auditing a compliance violation.
Flock's VP of Engineering advises police customers to disable nationwide sharing after public records requests expose search activity. The company's solution: "redaction capabilities" coming in 2026.
Flock CEO Garrett Langley recently assured a Virginia police chief that Flock is "CJIS compliant." He's technically correct—and completely misleading.
A list of Flock Transparency portals
The Washington cities of Sedro-Woolley and Stanwood filed a suit in Skagit County Superior Court, asking the court to put an end to police accountability.
