Flock’s surveillance business is moving from license-plate scanning toward a broader AI system for police investigations, according to WIRED’s reconstruction of the tool’s code.
The company’s cameras have already drawn criticism from privacy advocates and local communities. WIRED says the next-generation system, which some police agencies are already using, goes further than plate tracking by helping officers search and reason across surveillance data.
That shift matters because AI can turn scattered records into a faster investigative workflow. It can also make mistakes, expand monitoring, and obscure how a lead was produced if departments do not keep strong audit trails.
The report is based on reconstructed code rather than a full public product manual, so it does not answer every question about deployment or safeguards. It does, however, show why debates over police AI are no longer only about cameras on streets, but about the software that interprets what those cameras collect.