Topic # AI video analytics Automated behavior detection, "suspicious activity" scoring, video search by description. [AI video analytics ×](https://flock-truth.com/articles?sort=newest) [Reset](https://flock-truth.com/topic/ai-analytics) **5** articles · [RSS](https://flock-truth.com/feed.xml) WIRED · Paresh Dave · September 19, 2026 ## [Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee](https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/) wired.com Flock Safety opened a voluntary severance program for its roughly 1,500 employees, described internally as its most generous ever, as the company loses customers. One advocacy group counted 93 city and county governments ending ties with Flock in August alone, with about three times as many local governments dropping the company in 2026 as in the prior five years. Vandalism of cameras has also raised costs. [AI video analytics](https://flock-truth.com/topic/ai-analytics) [Article](https://flock-truth.com/topic/article) [Community pushback](https://flock-truth.com/topic/community-response) [Contracts & cost](https://flock-truth.com/topic/contracts-cost) [Flock Safety](https://flock-truth.com/topic/flock-safety) [License plate readers](https://flock-truth.com/topic/alpr) [National](https://flock-truth.com/topic/national) --- 404 Media · Joseph Cox, Dhruv Mehrotra · September 16, 2026 ## [Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People](https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-tracks-cars-and-people-2/) 404media.co Hackers removed a Flock camera, copied its storage, and recovered an on-device encryption key, sharing the files with 404 Media and WIRED. Analysis showed the software explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, plates, and bicycles, and logged about 50,200 vehicles and 1.6 million images over roughly 21 days. Reporters found no active face recognition, and the plate detector sometimes cropped bumper stickers and a flag patch. [AI video analytics](https://flock-truth.com/topic/ai-analytics) [Article](https://flock-truth.com/topic/article) [Community pushback](https://flock-truth.com/topic/community-response) [Data breaches](https://flock-truth.com/topic/data-breach) [Flock Safety](https://flock-truth.com/topic/flock-safety) [License plate readers](https://flock-truth.com/topic/alpr) [National](https://flock-truth.com/topic/national) --- WIRED · Dhruv Mehrotra · August 19, 2026 ## [Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code](https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/) wired.com WIRED reconstructed code Flock Safety served from its own login pages, describing an AI tool called OS Investigate that ships with 69 prewritten prompts and 45 data tools. The prompts let officers find drivers by movement patterns, identify vehicle associates, and search by physical description, drawing on plate scans, arrest records, dispatch logs, and commercial identity databases. Flock says the product is still in development. [AI video analytics](https://flock-truth.com/topic/ai-analytics) [Article](https://flock-truth.com/topic/article) [Flock Safety](https://flock-truth.com/topic/flock-safety) [License plate readers](https://flock-truth.com/topic/alpr) [National](https://flock-truth.com/topic/national) [Privacy](https://flock-truth.com/topic/privacy) [Warrantless searches](https://flock-truth.com/topic/no-warrant) --- Engadget · Max Miller · June 28, 2026 ## [Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast](https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/) engadget.com An overview of Flock Safety's camera network describes natural-language vehicle and person searches, over 100,000 ALPRs nationwide, and data sharing that gave ICE access via local police, including more than 1,400 Denver searches logged on ICE's behalf. It documents exposed cameras found by researcher Benn Jordan, dozens of officer stalking cases, misread plates leading to stops, and Denver's contract cancellation followed by an Axon award. [AI video analytics](https://flock-truth.com/topic/ai-analytics) [Abuse & misuse](https://flock-truth.com/topic/abuse-misuse) [Article](https://flock-truth.com/topic/article) [Data sharing](https://flock-truth.com/topic/data-sharing) [False hits](https://flock-truth.com/topic/false-positives) [Flock Safety](https://flock-truth.com/topic/flock-safety) [License plate readers](https://flock-truth.com/topic/alpr) [National](https://flock-truth.com/topic/national) --- Benn Jordan (YouTube) · Benn Jordan · August 26, 2025 ## [Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ) youtube.com A YouTube video whose description states that a private startup has been logging and sharing vehicle location data on United States drivers without their consent. The available text frames the piece as an examination of the artificial intelligence used in police camera systems. The description is truncated, so the full scope of the segment is not stated. [AI video analytics](https://flock-truth.com/topic/ai-analytics) [Data sharing](https://flock-truth.com/topic/data-sharing) [Flock Safety](https://flock-truth.com/topic/flock-safety) [License plate readers](https://flock-truth.com/topic/alpr) [National](https://flock-truth.com/topic/national) [Privacy](https://flock-truth.com/topic/privacy) [Video](https://flock-truth.com/topic/video) --- _Machine readable version of https://flock-truth.com/topic/ai-analytics. The interactive map and article filters are HTML only._