[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-flocks-ceo-skips-senate-hearing-on-his-own-surveillance-network":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},7628,"flocks-ceo-skips-senate-hearing-on-his-own-surveillance-network","Flock's CEO Skips Senate Hearing on His Own Surveillance Network","Flock's CEO skipped a Senate hearing on AI surveillance networks, even as senators singled out the company by name.","Flock's CEO had a chance to defend his company's surveillance network in front of the Senate. He stayed home instead.\n\nOn September 23, 2026, the Senate Judiciary Committee's crime and counterterrorism subcommittee held a hearing on what it billed as the \"AI Surveillance Network\" - the web of automated license-plate readers and similar tools that companies like Flock sell to police departments. Flock's CEO declined to testify, as did the chief executives of Axon, Motorola Solutions, and Verkada, the company's closest peers in the law-enforcement-tech business. Subcommittee chair Josh Hawley (R-MO) made clear who the hearing was really about: \"There's many players in this industry, but there's one name that really stands out above the rest, and that is Flock,\" he said, adding that \"if you haven't heard of Flock, all I have to say is, Flock's probably heard of you.\" Despite the empty witness chairs, demand for seats in the hearing room was high enough that a standby line stretched down the hall.\n\nA company skipping its own accountability hearing while a subcommittee chair name-checks it by name is not a neutral look. Flock's absence doesn't slow the scrutiny down - Hawley chairs the panel, and unanswered questions from a chair with subpoena power tend to resurface as subpoenas or draft legislation rather than fade away.\n\nSilence is a strategy until it isn't - and for a company whose whole pitch is that its cameras make communities safer, skipping the room where surveillance law gets written is a strange way to build public trust.","[\"flock\",\"surveillance\",\"senate-hearing\",\"policing-tech\"]","2026-09-24T14:15:05.000Z","2026-09-24T15:22:24.128Z","2026-09-24T15:22:29.110Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Convert the relative reference 'stayed home Wednesday' to an absolute date (the hearing was 2026-09-23) per house style.","resolved","policy",[32,33,34,35],"flock","surveillance","senate-hearing","policing-tech",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"The Verge","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002Fpolicy\u002F1000005\u002Fflock-senate-hearing",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,57,62,67,72,77,82,87,92,97,102,107],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",4432,"2026-09-24T16:32:42.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",724,"2026-09-24T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":30,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Policy",384,"2026-09-24T15:44:28.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Deals","deals",232,"2026-09-24T14:00:29.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Hardware","hardware",178,"2026-09-24T15:24:48.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Science","science",137,"2026-09-24T16:38:26.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":74,"count":75,"latest_published_at":76},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",124,"2026-09-24T16:29:31.000Z",{"name":78,"slug":79,"count":80,"latest_published_at":81},"Software","software",85,"2026-09-23T20:00:00.000Z",{"name":83,"slug":84,"count":85,"latest_published_at":86},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",79,"2026-09-22T22:21:13.000Z",{"name":88,"slug":89,"count":90,"latest_published_at":91},"Startups","startups",67,"2026-09-24T14:31:00.000Z",{"name":93,"slug":94,"count":95,"latest_published_at":96},"Gaming","gaming",45,"2026-09-22T15:35:06.000Z",{"name":98,"slug":99,"count":100,"latest_published_at":101},"General","general",43,"2026-09-21T23:48:56.000Z",{"name":103,"slug":104,"count":105,"latest_published_at":106},"Reviews","reviews",29,"2026-09-24T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":108,"slug":109,"count":110,"latest_published_at":111},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]