Flock cameras were created by Garrett Langley, Matt Feury and Paige Todd, three Georgia Tech alumni who founded Flock Safety in 2017. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and develops automated license plate recognition cameras and related public-safety software.
Garrett Langley
Garrett Langley is Flock Safety’s co-founder and chief executive officer. He studied electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has said that concerns about crime and poor-quality security footage in Atlanta helped inspire the company’s creation.
What Flock Safety makes
Flock’s cameras are automated license plate readers, commonly called ALPR cameras. They photograph passing vehicles and use software to identify details such as license plates, vehicle colour, make, model and distinctive features. Police departments, private communities, businesses and other organisations can use the resulting records during investigations.
The company began with solar-powered, cellular-connected cameras designed for neighbourhoods and later expanded into a broader surveillance platform, including gunfire detection and data-integration tools.
Who owns the company?
Flock Safety is privately held, so it doesn’t have a single public owner. Its ownership is divided among its founders, employees and private investors, including venture-capital firms that have funded the company.
The cameras have also become controversial. Supporters say they can help investigators locate vehicles connected to crimes, while privacy advocates argue that storing searchable records of vehicle movements can enable broad surveillance. Those concerns relate to how the technology is deployed and accessed, rather than changing who created it.