Flock offers buyouts to its 1,500-person workforce

Flock Safety is offering voluntary buyouts across its roughly 1,500-person workforce and says it will grant packages to a majority of interested employees, TechCrunch reports. The move follows backlash over its license-plate-recognition network: reporting cited 46 alleged misuse cases and 90 cities ending contracts in August, while Wired’s account says layoffs were otherwise likely. Procurement teams should treat voluntary exits as a governance signal and demand retention, consent and audit evidence before scaling camera-driven AI; our analysis of employee-surveillance systems covers the same control gap.