Garrett Langley
ON THE RECORD · 10 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“As long as it's a lawful investigation, we are not going to tell cities what laws they should or should not enforce.”
Garrett Langley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-05
Langley says Flock will not tell cities what laws to enforce as long as investigations are lawful.
“I don't think a technology company should be making decisions like that,”
Garrett Langley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-05
Langley told the BBC that decisions about data retention and information sharing should be left to individual cities.
“about a million crimes”
Garrett Langley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-05
Langley boasts that the technology helped solve approximately one million crimes and find over 10,000 missing people.
“The debate of how we build a society where safety and privacy coexist”
Garrett Langley · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-05
Langley says the debate about how safety and privacy can coexist is worth having, while calling the ongoing vandalism disappointing.
“We announced changes that required auditing, that required using our audit assistance tool, which detects abnormal behavior, and we're calling on state regulators to focus less on banning this type of technology and more [on] holding our law enforcement community accountable.”
Garrett Langley · said 2026-08-22 · reported 2026-08-22
Garrett Langley called on state regulators to focus on accountability rather than outright bans on technology.
“When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they're prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,”
Garrett Langley · said 2026-08-22 · reported 2026-08-22
Garrett Langley argued that the country must compromise between privacy and public safety.
“Today, it is too often that in Flock and in other technologies, there's no regulation. There's no accountability, and we think that's wrong,”
Garrett Langley · said 2026-08-22 · reported 2026-08-22
Garrett Langley addressed the lack of regulation and accountability in surveillance technology.
“How do we have our safety, and how do we balance privacy?”
Garrett Langley · said 2026-08-22 · reported 2026-08-22
Garrett Langley questioned how the country can maintain safety while balancing privacy concerns.
“If you sell a power, you owe the public the guardrails,”
Garrett Langley · said 2026-08-13 · reported 2026-08-14
Langley characterized limits on the technology as necessary safeguards for a technology with significant investigative power.
“If we’re going to build tools this powerful, we have an obligation to help protect the public from the small number of officers that misuse them,”
Garrett Langley · said 2026-08-13 · reported 2026-08-14
Flock CEO Garrett Langley announced new mandatory safeguards for law enforcement customers following backlash over privacy concerns and officer misuse of the cameras.