Federal lawmakers are demanding an FTC investigation into Flock Safety’s negligent data security, amplifying a growing, cross-partisan movement to dismantle the company’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) network. Communities across the US are successfully canceling contracts, spurred by reports of the system’s inherent flaws. Technical errors and police over-reliance on Flock data have led to innocent people being held at gunpoint and falsely accused of crimes. Civil liberties advocates warn that this mass surveillance infrastructure is also being weaponized for invasive purposes, such as tracking individuals suspected of seeking abortions and enabling federal immigration enforcement. The fight against Flock frames mass, for-profit surveillance not as a safety tool, but as a direct threat to due process and public safety itself.