What Is Flock Safety?

What Is Flock Safety?

About the Company

Flock Safety is an Atlanta-based company founded in 2017. As of 2025, Flock says it operates in over 5,000 communities across 49 U.S. states and performs over 20 billion scans of vehicles every month. In March 2025, Flock Safety raised $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with additional backing from Greenoaks Capital, Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, among others. (Wikipedia; funding announcement)

Flock differs from competitors in that it markets its services not just to law enforcement, but also to homeowner associations and similar community organizations as tools for crime prevention. (Wikipedia)

What the Technology Does

Flock's cameras are Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). They detect the make, type, color, license plate, and unique features of passing vehicles. They do not employ facial recognition or have the capability to detect people, gender, or race. (City of Roanoke FAQ)

Flock ALPR collects license plate images, vehicle characteristics, date and time stamps, and camera location identifiers. (Flock Safety — Data Privacy)

Flock's Partners and Integrations

Beyond law enforcement customers, Flock has built an expanding ecosystem of technology partners:

  • In April 2025, Flock announced a partnership with Mark43 to integrate Flock's license plate reader and video data with Mark43's Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Records Management System (RMS) platforms used by law enforcement. (Mark43)
  • Flock also announced an integration with Coreforce, embedding Flock hotlist alerts and license plate recognition searches directly into Coreforce's Real-Time Crime Center and Digital Evidence Management System platforms. (Police1)
  • Flock has made its core APIs available at no cost to law enforcement, enabling integration with dozens of additional third-party law enforcement tools. (Flock Safety)

Flock's customer base spans law enforcement, corrections, education and campus, parks and public spaces, transportation, residential HOAs, multifamily communities, retail, healthcare, property management, banking, hospitality, logistics, and corporate security. (Flock Safety)

Flock's Data Policy — What the Company Says

  • Flock states that it does not sell camera data to any third party, and that the customer remains in control of who can access that information. (Flock Safety)
  • Flock's privacy policy states that it may use a small fraction (less than 1%) of images captured by Flock cameras, stripped of all metadata and identifying information, for the limited purpose of improving products through machine learning, and that these images are never sold or shared with third parties. (Flock Safety)
  • According to Flock, sharing between agencies only happens if an agency chooses to participate, and every search is recorded and tied to a specific user. (Flock Safety)
  • Flock states it does not have a contract with ICE and does not share customer data with any entity without a customer's explicit choice and control. (Flock Safety)