Garrett Langley of Flock Safety, Rick Smith of Axon, Greg Brown of Motorola Solutions and Filip Kaliszan of Verkada did not attend a Sept. 23 Senate hearing on police use of license-plate cameras amid concerns about wrongful arrests and audit gaps.
Flock cameras capture vehicle movements searchable by police for up to 30 days; more than 120,000 operated nationwide, Atlanta News First and InvestigateTV reported. Those outlets reported at least 19 Georgia cases in one year in which officers were arrested or relieved of duty for allegedly using Flock’s system to track partners, colleagues or civilians. They found officer names were replaced by anonymized IDs in external network searches and plate numbers were removed from network audit trails, changes that could make improper searches harder for the public to detect. Flock introduced a 2026 AI tool for flagging suspicious searches.
Driver Lindsey Isaacs testified she spent nearly two weeks in jail after a Flock camera placed her car near a fatal crash she was not involved in; a second investigation found police had targeted the wrong vehicle. Cybersecurity researcher Benn Jordan said he found dozens of Flock cameras streaming openly online. Witnesses urged warrants for searches of historical plate data or a ban on federally funded police use, while an Arizona sheriff cited a case in which camera data helped apprehend a driver who allegedly caused a serious crash. The hearing produced no legislation.
