Source: https://ipvm.com/reports/flock-trump
Publisher: IPVM
Date Published: July 8, 2026
Relevant To: Flock Safety vendor accountability; federal lobbying spend; contract cancellation tracking; misuse pattern documentation
Verification Status: Verified
Notes: Confirmed via full-text fetch (public IPVM report, no subscription required). Flock CEO Garrett Langley told a Semafor conference panel that opposition to Flock is really anger at the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement misdirected at his company, and that the controversy “will move past.” He separately told a podcast the company has “no opinion” on Texas using Flock for immigration enforcement and declined to engage the federal government on ICE access, saying it’s not the company’s position to have that conversation. IPVM’s analysis pushes back with substantial documentation: GovTech recorded 82 terminated Flock contracts across 28 states (2021–May 2026), accelerating sharply in 2026 alongside the ICE controversy; Flock’s federal lobbying spend grew more than 10x, from $90,000 (2024) to over $1 million (2025), using firms with direct Trump-administration ties. IPVM also documents pre-Trump, structural problems independent of the immigration angle: Institute for Justice has counted at least 16 publicly reported cases of officers misusing Flock to stalk ex-partners across 7 states (Flock’s own Chief Legal Officer acknowledged this is “the most common form of abuse on the platform”); Business Insider catalogued a dozen wrongful-stop incidents (gunpoint detentions, K-9 maulings, wrongful jailing) tied to Flock misreads; Flock’s self-reported ~90% accuracy rate is called unacceptably low for law-enforcement use. Scale figures: Flock grew from 270 cities (2019) to 5,000+ agencies (2025); 20 billion monthly plate reads means the average US vehicle is read roughly 70 times/month. Also notable: Flock’s officer-facing FAQ reportedly contradicts its public messaging about not tracking individuals, per a separate IPVM report linked within this one. Very high-value source for BPA’s ALPR/Flock vendor accountability tracking — both for the lobbying-spend data point and the structural (non-partisan) misuse pattern.