It’s Not Just Flock

Flock Safety is the most common ALPR vendor in our area, but it isn’t the only one. Other companies — Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Leonardo/ELSAG, and Rekor, among others — sell similar plate-reading and tracking systems to police, HOAs, and businesses. The crowdsourced DeFlock map tracks multiple vendors for exactly this reason.

Why it matters for the fight

If the only goal were “get rid of Flock,” an agency could simply switch brands and keep the same mass surveillance running under a new logo. That’s why our demands focus on the practice, not just the product: no warrantless tracking, no nationwide data-sharing, short retention, public audits — or no cameras at all. Those rules bind any vendor.

The bottom line

Don’t let a brand swap be mistaken for a win. The question isn’t whose name is on the camera. It’s whether anyone — under any logo — gets to track an entire community without a warrant.

Who the other players are

Automated plate reading is a crowded industry. A quick field guide to the names you’ll see on the DeFlock map:

• Flock Safety — the fast-growing newcomer, built around solar-powered pole cameras and a nationwide, searchable network. The dominant brand in New Hanover County.
• Motorola Solutions (Vigilant Solutions) — one of the oldest ALPR operators, with a huge commercial plate database sold to police for years.
• Genetec (AutoVu) — a Canadian firm whose readers are common on patrol cars and in parking enforcement.
• Leonardo / ELSAG — a defense contractor whose fixed and mobile readers are widely deployed by state agencies.
• Rekor — a software-first vendor that turns ordinary cameras into plate readers and sells roadway analytics to states.
• Neology — tolling and vehicle-identification systems that increasingly feed the same law-enforcement pipelines.

And there’s a layer stacked on top of all of them: real-time crime center platforms like Axon’s Fusus — the system behind Wilmington PD’s “STING Center” — that fuse many of these feeds into a single police dashboard. The plate readers are just one input into a much larger surveillance stack.