Overview
- The LAPD allowed its three‑year agreement with Flock Safety to expire on Saturday, pausing routine officer access to Flock’s license‑plate reader services while the city and the company negotiate new enforceable contract terms.
- An inspector‑general audit of August–September 2025 found more than 210 million plate reads in two months and 161 alerts that wrongly flagged vehicles as stolen, outcomes that the report said risk wrongful high‑risk stops.
- The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners voted to suspend new ALPR deployments and adopt inspector‑general recommendations that call for Police Commission approval of vendor contracts, annual audits, and standard documentation of ALPR‑initiated stops.
- Flock said it was surprised and seeks to resume the partnership, but officials say Flock‑owned and privately owned cameras will keep recording to cloud storage while LAPD does not have regular access pending a new agreement.
- The dispute ties into wider concerns nationwide about Flock’s roughly 80,000‑camera network, reported data exposures, instances of insider misuse and tests of federal access that have prompted other cities to pause or end contracts and driven community protests and policy reviews.