Overview
Flock Safety is a US surveillance technology company providing automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras and a searchable nationwide vehicle database used by law enforcement and municipalities. Its warrantless database search practices have drawn constitutional challenges.
Recent Developments
- 2026-10-03: Federal judge in Tulsa ruled a warrantless Flock license plate search violated Fourth Amendment rights, calling the system “indiscriminate mass surveillance” and suppressing evidence — among the first federal rulings against Flock database searches (2026-10-03-flock-federal-judge-mass-surveillance-ruling)