Overview
- The San Diego Budget and Government Efficiency Committee voted to terminate the city’s contract with Flock Safety, a decision that must be approved by the full City Council and could be overturned by a mayoral veto.
- The San Diego Police Department said it will remove the generic “other” option from its ALPR search reasons after reporting showed thousands of searches used that label without clear justification.
- Two New Bedford, Massachusetts, officers were fired after an internal audit found repeated personal misuse of Flock searches, including one officer who queried the same plate hundreds of times.
- City data from La Mesa show the city’s 20 Flock cameras were queried more than 3 million times over seven months, with many searches run by outside agencies across California, illustrating cross‑jurisdictional reach.
- The local actions follow wider legal and policy pressure on Flock’s nationwide network, including court rulings, lawsuits, shorter retention defaults from the vendor, and proposed laws that would tighten audits and warrant standards.