- Title
- Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Flock Safety (founded 2017 with Matt Feury and Paige Todd) · Atlanta
- Next voter decision
- none; a private company valued at a reported $7.5 billion
Record
Langley’s company says its mission is to “help eliminate crime.” Under him Flock built National Lookup, the one-setting nationwide search that put a Texas abortion search and thousands of ICE lookups within reach of any customer, then withdrew it for three states whose laws forbade the sharing (Flock Safety · Camera network misuse, documented cases). He told Forbes in June 2025, “We will just open up the five nearest cameras in real time and say, here’s what’s happening right now,” and told ABC7 in July 2026, after LAPD let the contract lapse over false stops, “A car drives by, we take a picture. It’s a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate” (404 Media). The company’s August 2026 safeguards (7-day default retention, mandatory MFA, offense filtering on shared searches) are the clearest list of what the product allowed before (Flock Safety).
On August 26, 2026, Senator Josh Hawley, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, wrote to Langley opening an investigation into Flock’s collection, retention, and sharing of the data its cameras generate, with documents due Sept 8, 2026; per the senator’s Sept 30 release Flock sent a written response, which has not been published. Langley was invited to testify at the subcommittee’s Sept 23 hearing and did not appear (Roll Call) (the letter · the release). The letter cites 120,000 cameras in 49 states and 20 billion scans a month, and states the oversight question in one sentence: “Your company’s internal policies are, in practice, the only safeguards for hundreds of millions of Americans.” Closer to home, Hendersonville’s police chief told his council on September 3 that he has been asked to moderate a panel with Langley this October (Blair Myhand).
Relevance to Asheville
Asheville’s council was presented Flock by representatives using the company’s council guide (Flock’s guide for presenting to councils); council voted Aug 25, 2026 to remove the city’s cameras; his company’s recorded conduct when towns leave (Verona’s bagged cameras, the “maintenance” work order) is why the exit needs a deadline and a paper trail (Getting Flock Out).
The question for him
How many of Flock’s customers, like Henderson County, share with more than two thousand agencies, and will Flock publish that number?