Flock offers buyouts as customers flee
The gist
Flock Safety offered voluntary buyouts to its roughly 1,500 employees, with decisions due October 2.
The license-plate-reader maker is shrinking as cities and states drop its cameras.
How it unfolded
- April 2026Flock raised money at a valuation of more than $8 billion in a funding round that closed in April.
- August 2026One advocacy group identified 93 city and county governments that cut ties with Flock in August alone; another anti-surveillance group reported 90 cities abandoned Flock, four times the previous month's figure.
- August 2026The Washington Post identified 46 cases in which police officers were accused of improperly using Flock's technology, including stalking wives, girlfriends, or former partners.