Flock Safety is losing customers faster than it's signing new ones, city by city.
Secure Justice, an Oakland-based anti-surveillance advocacy group, has tracked 214 cities and counties that have cut ties with Flock since 2021. Ninety of those cancellations happened in August 2026 alone - a fourfold jump from the month before. Local governments from Lansing, Michigan, to Pflugerville, Texas, are among those walking away. The reasons cluster around the same complaints: surveillance creep, unwanted data sharing, high costs, and documented cases of police misusing the cameras.
Flock's camera network, built around automated license plate readers, has become a default surveillance layer for thousands of US police departments, largely because it was cheap and easy to deploy. A fourfold spike in cancellations in a single month suggests the backlash has moved past scattered privacy advocates and into city council budget meetings, where cost and liability concerns carry more weight than abstract civil liberties arguments.
Flock built a business on being the surveillance vendor nobody had to think twice about; August looks like the month a lot of cities started thinking twice.