San Francisco Keeps Flock Cameras After 1.6M Illegal Queries

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie imposed new rules on the city's nearly 500 Flock license-plate cameras, cutting data retention from 12 months to 30 days and requiring case links and supervisor approval for extensions. The city kept its contract despite over 1.6 million illegal out-of-state queries, while Flock's own default retention is now 7 days and 214 cities have dropped the vendor since 2021.

• San Francisco cut Flock data retention from 12 months to 30 days
• Flock's own default retention is now 7 days for new clients
• SFPD's Flock database saw over 1.6 million illegal out-of-state queries
• 214 cities have dropped Flock contracts since 2021