Garrett Langley
CEO and co-founder, Flock Safety
“for the longest time, 30 days was our default. We've recently shifted that down to seven days”
“we think 90% of crimes will get solved within seven days of data retention.”
“we don't do facial recognition. We don't capture video, we don't look inside the car.”
Garrett Langley
One-line summary: Flock Safety CEO; All-In interview (2026-08-18) primary for ALPR retention, audit tooling, and privacy-vs-safety claims — CEO-claimed numbers, bias-calibrated.
What they're known for
Founded Flock Safety (~9 years before Aug 2026 interview) on a "safer neighborhood" mission; scaled from neighborhood sales to municipal ALPR contracts.
Why they matter to politics
Single-source voice for the industry's privacy-first positioning (no FR/video/in-car search), democratic retention choice, mandatory Audit Assistance, and backlash/churn narrative. Right-of-reply present as interviewee; still talking his book.
Said
Speaker-attributed claims extracted from diarized sources. Each bullet mirrors one entry in quotes: frontmatter — keep them in sync.
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On license-plate-retention-privacy-vs-safety:
"for the longest time, 30 days was our default. We've recently shifted that down to seven days" — 2026-08-18-all-in-podcast-flock-ceo-garrett-langley-on-controversy (2026-08-18)
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On license-plate-retention-privacy-vs-safety, how-much-alpr-retention-is-enough:
"we think 90% of crimes will get solved within seven days of data retention." — 2026-08-18-all-in-podcast-flock-ceo-garrett-langley-on-controversy (2026-08-18)
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On license-plate-retention-privacy-vs-safety:
"we don't do facial recognition. We don't capture video, we don't look inside the car." — 2026-08-18-all-in-podcast-flock-ceo-garrett-langley-on-controversy (2026-08-18)