MapQuest added a Map Options layer that plots license plate readers and cameras from 11 named companies, including Flock Safety. Neither TNW nor Engadget reports how many people use it, so the evidence covers one app and no wider category.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 28%
- Operator
- Operator 47%
- Investor
- Investor 25%
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence60
Flock CEO Garrett Langley said the company has ended no contract over abuse, though dozens of officers were arrested, fired or told to resign. He named knowing lawbreaking as the trigger, so a buyer has to write its own rule for smaller cases.
Perspective Coverage
5 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 17%
- Operator
- Operator 64%
- Investor
- Investor 19%
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence68
Tyler Murkerson sued Flock and Coweta County, Georgia, over five sheriff's office searches of his plate in 197 days. The two disclosed searches list the reasons "info" and "37," and the class is defined by searches with no recorded reason.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 28%
- Operator
- Operator 38%
- Investor
- Investor 34%
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
Flock expects drones to supply nearly half its revenue as cities ban its plate readers
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley says drones will be nearly half of future revenue, per Fast Company, as cities ban its plate readers. Flock has roughly 175 drone first-responder customers among about 2,000 agencies running such programs.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence50
Flock dropped the made-in-America line from its camera marketing
For years Flock said its license plate cameras were produced in the United States. WIRED found that claim gone from the newer materials while import records show cameras and radar parts arriving from Primax in Thailand.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives65
- Confidence58