The Facts

This page collects the core factual claims behind DeFlock Wylie's campaign. Claims are dated because the situation changes — contracts, court cases, and camera counts move over time. Where a fact is time-sensitive, verify it against the cited primary source. Corrections: [email protected].

About Flock Safety

• Flock Safety is the brand of Flock Group Inc., a surveillance company founded in 2017 that sells ALPR cameras and audio-detection devices to police, businesses, and HOAs, connected through a national searchable network.
• Flock ALPR cameras record every passing vehicle's plate, make, model, color, and distinguishing features with time and location — not only vehicles tied to a crime.
• The company shares a major early investor (Founders Fund) with Palantir, a data-analytics and intelligence contractor.

The Wylie contract

• The City of Wylie contracts with Flock Safety to operate ALPR cameras in the city. The contract was procured through a sole-source process (no competitive bid) and was not put to a public vote.
• The contract, sole-source letter, ALPR policy, council minutes, and network audit logs were obtained by residents under the Texas Public Information Act.
• Wylie's program has been positioned for expansion (additional cameras), which raises the stakes of the surveillance footprint rather than reducing it.

Documented security failures

• In 2025, technologist Benn Jordan and other researchers demonstrated that roughly 60+ Flock AI cameras were exposed on the public internet with no password, streaming live and archived footage that anyone with a browser could view — in some cases reaching admin-level functions.
• Security researchers have documented numerous vulnerabilities in Flock hardware and software, including ways to access unencrypted images and credentials.
• Law-enforcement and government system credentials — including some tied to Flock — have been reported for sale on dark-web markets, where "access brokers" trade stolen logins.

Audio surveillance

• Some Flock devices include microphones marketed to detect gunshots and other "sounds of distress," raising the prospect of recording ordinary public conversations.

National context

• Thousands of Flock and other ALPR cameras are deployed across the United States; privacy advocates map them at deflock.me.
• Several cities and counties have ended, paused, or declined to renew Flock or ALPR contracts over privacy, legal, and security concerns, even as other jurisdictions expand them.
• In documented cases elsewhere, local Flock data has been searchable by outside agencies, including federal immigration enforcement, through the national network.