Flock CEO Asks Americans to 'Compromise' on Privacy as Camera Backlash Grows
In brief Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley told Fox News that the country has to prioritize a compromise between privacy and safety. He compared calls for an outright ban to banning vehicles, pointing to drunk driving and seatbelt laws as the better model.
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- Fact 1: He named two things regulators should fix instead: data retention, where Flock recently cut its own recommendation to seven days against a strictest-in-the-nation state limit of 21, and accountability for officers who abuse the system.
- Fact 2: "The person who wants a bad cop gone first is a good cop, and 99.9% of cops are good," he said.
- Fact 3: Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) August 26, 2026 Flock faces scrutiny A Washington Post investigation published on August 19 found at least 69 police officials accused, charged or convicted of misusing Flock or similar plate readers.
- Fact 4: In at least 15 of those cases, the person who spotted it first was outside the department: a victim, an activist or a journalist.
In brief Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley told Fox News that the country has to prioritize a compromise between privacy and safety. He compared calls for an outright ban to banning vehicles, pointing to drunk driving and seatbelt laws as the better model.
Langley's remarks followed a Washington Post investigation that found police departments were not auditing how officers used the cameras. The CEO of Flock Safety has called for "compromise" amid a growing backlash against the company's AI-powered license plate cameras, which have been vandalized across the country and have drawn bipartisan fire in Congress. "What we have to prioritize as a country is compromise," Garrett Langley told Fox News in an interview broadcast Saturday, arguing that Americans who frame the argument as a choice between privacy and safety are "prioritizing the wrong thing." Flock has united lawmakers who agree on little else.
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