Surveillance tech company Flock Safety is offering generous voluntary severance packages to shrink its 1,500-person workforce amid mounting public backlash. The company faces scrutiny after 46 documented cases of police misuse of its license plate recognition system, with Florida and Texas dropping the technology and 90 cities discontinuing it in August alone. Flock stated that without the buyout program, layoffs would have been "almost certain."
Background
Flock Safety builds license plate recognition and crowd-counting technology used by law enforcement agencies across the U.S., and has faced growing public opposition to its deployment since media exposés highlighted potential for abuse by individual officers.
- Source
- TechCrunch
- Published
- Sep 20, 2026 at 04:39 AM
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- 5.0 / 10