1 out of 3 Flock stolen vehicle alerts were bogus.

You know it is bad if the LAPD drops it.

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More than 5,000 U.S. cities have Flock Safety cameras quietly scanning license plates on their streets. Most residents never voted on it. Now, a growing number of those cities are ripping up the contracts. According to NPR, at least 30 localities deactivated cameras or ended deals since early 2025. That number keeps climbing — one tally puts it at roughly 54 municipalities acting this year alone, with a broader count reaching 82 terminated contracts across 28 states, according to the Washington Examiner.

The reasons aren’t abstract. They’re specific, documented, and ugly.


The Numbers Don’t Lie
The scale of contract losses spans coast to coast, and the data behind them is difficult to ignore.

Contract cancellations or rejections have now hit 28 states, with California and Wisconsin leading at seven each, followed by New York, Washington, and Massachusetts with four each, per the Washington Examiner. The LAPD declined to renew its Flock contract after an internal audit found 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months — a 32.3% false-positive rate. LAPD’s chief information officer Dean Gialamas quoted “This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras.” Central objections across cities include:

- Data retention policies
- Lack of oversight
- Fears that plate-reader data could be accessed by federal immigration
authorities
- One in three alerts being wrong is the kind of accuracy rate that would get
a weather app deleted. For a system that can trigger police stops, the
stakes are considerably higher.

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