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Flock Safety
Also known as: Flock, Flock cameras
A private surveillance company that sells solar-powered LPR cameras to police departments, HOAs, and private businesses across the U.S.
What Flock Safety sells
Flock Safety is the dominant private LPR vendor in the U.S. Its product line includes solar-powered "Falcon" plate readers, "Raven" gunshot detection, and "Sparrow" mobile units. Cameras feed into the Flock OS cloud platform, which any participating agency can search across the entire network — meaning a Flock camera installed by your HOA may be queried by police anywhere Flock operates.
How communities push back
Several cities have removed or refused Flock contracts after public records requests revealed extensive cross-jurisdictional sharing, ICE access, and queries unrelated to local crime. Mapping projects like Find Flock Oklahoma and DeFlock document camera locations to support that transparency work.
FAQ
The default retention is 30 days, but agencies can configure longer retention and many do. Hot-list matches are typically retained longer.