Flock Safety

Flock sells cheap automated license-plate readers to police departments, HOAs, and businesses, then links them into a searchable national network of 120,000+ cameras across 5,000+ agencies, scanning roughly 20 billion vehicles a month. Officers in one town can query cameras across the country. Reporting has documented searches for immigration and out-of-state abortion cases running across the shared system. Valued at about $8.4 billion in 2026, Flock has pushed beyond cameras into drones (via its 2024 acquisition of Aerodome), gunshot-detection audio, and Flock Nova, a data-fusion platform that links plate reads to other personal data.