Leaked Documents Reveal Flock's Plan to Scan Plates Via 350,000 Rideshare Dashcams

Documents obtained by 404 Media through a public records request shed new light on plans and internal practices at surveillance technology company Flock Safety that had not previously been made public.

A plan to enlist rideshare vehicles

One document, prepared last August for the Georgia Attorney General's Office, outlined a proposed partnership with dashcam maker Nexar covering roughly 350,000 devices installed in Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers' vehicles. Flock's cameras are typically mounted on fixed poles, scanning the plate, color, make, and model of every passing car. The Nexar partnership would have turned that into a roving collection network built on drivers' own dashcams.

Flock told 404 Media it never followed through on the partnership. Uber, Lyft, and Nexar did not respond to requests for comment, and there is no indication drivers would have known their cameras were feeding data into the network. Nexar itself was breached last September, when a hacker extracted terabytes of customer video, including footage captured near Defense Department sites.

Ties to immigration enforcement and a police coaching guide

404 Media also reported that former Flock government affairs manager Jonathan Paz quit in July 2025, turning down equity and severance, after learning the company had given US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection direct access to its cameras through a pilot program, while telling staff internally that it did not work with ICE.

The outlet separately obtained a coaching guide Flock provides to police departments on how to pitch the technology to city councils. The guide advises officers to privately brief council members and city managers before public meetings, arrive with a scripted presentation, and reframe cost discussions around "the cost of unresolved crime" rather than the price of the system itself.