Flock Safety Opens Voluntary Buyouts to Its ~1,500 Employees as 214 Communities Have Dropped Its Cameras, 90 of Them in August Alone
Flock Safety opened applications for a voluntary severance program on Friday September 18, giving roughly 1,500 employees until October 2 to decide, with people familiar with the program expecting a significant share to take it. The demand side collapsed first: at least 214 communities have dropped Flock ALPRs since 2021 and 90 of those cancellations landed in August 2026 alone, about three localities per day, with roughly 23 city councils voting to cancel, not renew, reject or deactivate in 2026. This is the cleanest vertical-SaaS churn case of the week and the cause is not an AI competitor but political risk on the data itself, after residents in Flagstaff, Cambridge, Eugene and Santa Cruz raised concerns about federal access to local camera data.
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