ATLANTA, July 19 — Flock Safety, the privately held American manufacturer of automated license plate recognition systems and surveillance hardware, has doubled its office footprint with a move to The Medici in Atlanta this year. The company now operates in over 5,000 communities across 49 states, processing more than 20 billion vehicle scans each month. Founded in 2017 by three Georgia Tech alumni — Garrett Langley, Paige Todd, and Matt Feury — the company began as a side project around a dining room table.
The turning point: a DeKalb County detective told Langley his camera had helped solve a home break-in. The co-founders quit their jobs.
Flock Group Inc., doing business as Flock Safety, has since raised a total of $950 million in venture funding, carrying a $7.5 billion valuation. Its customer base is not limited to law enforcement. Flock also sells its services to homeowner associations and community organisations, broadening the network of cameras and sensors that feed its central platform.
Technical Underpinnings
Under the hood, Flock’s system combines automated license plate recognition (ALPR), video surveillance, gunfire locator systems, and supporting software. The technical reality is one of constant, automated data collection — every scan adds to a growing repository of vehicle location histories. In 2024, Flock acquired Aerodome, a drone manufacturer for law enforcement, adding an aerial dimension to its ground-level surveillance.
In October 2025, Flock partnered with Amazon’s Ring, but the integration was cancelled after Amazon aired a Super Bowl LX advertisement featuring the “Search Party” AI function. The detail that matters: the partnership was short-lived, underscoring the tension between consumer-facing security and law enforcement data-sharing.
Legal and Public Pushback
The legal landscape has shifted. In 2024, a Norfolk, Virginia Circuit Court judge ruled that collecting location data from the city’s 172 Flock ALPRs constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, citing United States v. Jones.
That data cannot be used as evidence without a warrant. The ruling is a significant check on what critics describe as mass surveillance.
Some cities have ended contracts with Flock over immigration enforcement concerns and what they see as a lack of consent. The efficacy of the systems, along with their privacy impacts, remains subject to public debate and ongoing litigation. As ever, the company’s growth — from a dining-room project to a $7.5 billion enterprise operating in 49 states — has attracted both investment and scrutiny.
The relocation to Atlanta’s Medici in 2026 signals a long-term commitment to its hometown, but the questions around Fourth Amendment protections and community consent are not going away. What to watch next: how the legal challenges unfold, particularly as Flock’s network expands into homeowner associations and further into the public sphere.
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