Flock's CEO Finally Faced Me After My Wrongful Stop. Here's What I Learned
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Flock’s CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop
Flock CEO Garrett Langley sat down to discuss the errors that led to police stopping me and the growing fight over Flock's network of AI-powered surveillance cameras.
By Joel Feder
Updated
Jul 29, 2026 4:11 PM EDT
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Millions of people have seen the story of Flock cameras tracking me in a $155,000 Range Rover and subsequently four police officers surrounding my wife and me in a parking lot. Human error was involved, but Flock cameras working off the company’s AI tech compounded everything at an exponential rate.
Now on the latest episode of The Drivecast, Flock Safety Founder and CEO Garrett Langley sat down with me for a candid discussion about what happened to me and countless others in the last few years, the future vision for Flock amid the public backlash over privacy and Fourth Amendment concerns, the growing calls for regulation, and his previous comment that people who destroy or vandalize Flock equipment are "domestic terrorists."
On a daily basis there’s reporting of cops misusing Flock’s tech to stalk people, which in turn ends up getting them arrested and sent to jail, misread situations taking place, arguments at city council meetings, and people targeting the automatic license plate readers and cutting them down, shooting them, covering them with trash bags and more. You might call this a hot topic, and somehow, I landed right in the middle of it.
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Full Transcript
Joel: Garrett, thank you for agreeing to come on the podcast. I know you’re extremely busy and there’s a lot of controversy at the moment surrounding Flock. You’re living your life on an airplane, even though you’re a family man. Just to get it out of the way and start, aside from a thank you, typically every executive we’ve had on this podcast, I kind of know them. I’ve worked in the industry for 15 years, so I usually know them, we’ve had a relationship. This is the first time I’ve ever met you. Given the podcast and everything, I have to ask: Are you a car enthusiast? Do you like cars? Do you care about driving? I’m genuinely curious.
Garrett: I hate to spoil it for your fans. I am not a car guy. Now, I have a deep appreciation for F1, and that’s more from an athletic standpoint. You look at the sheer engineering behind it—they’re optimizing every single millisecond, every single millimeter of the engine and of the design. But funny enough, up until two or three years ago, I was driving the same Toyota Prius that I’ve been driving since college. Everyone was like, "Why don’t you drive another car?" It works. It works really well. Gets me from A to B. It’s a great car. I wound up upgrading the dash to have Apple CarPlay, because the Toyota didn’t have it, so I retrofit that myself. But no, I get a hard time from some of my friends who love cars, saying that I should be more into cars. Between three kids, a wife, and a business, I’m trying to find time for the simpler things in life.
Joel: I can appreciate that. I didn’t really know what you were going to answer, because the reality is that you’re not a car company, you’re not a supplier of car parts or any of that stuff, so I think it was just context. By the way, a Prius, a Corolla, a Camry—there’s nothing really wrong with them. They’re not enthusiast cars, but to your point, if you’re looking for fuel-efficient, safe, reliable, get you from point A to point B, it’s hard to beat, specifically...