Flock Safety is going through a rough patch with one of its biggest clients.

The Los Angeles Police Department let its agreement with the surveillance company expire over the past weekend, a department spokesperson told Business Insider on Monday.

“We wanted to address some of the concerns about civil liberties and civil rights and ensure there is clarity around terms related to privacy, data ownership and security,” the LAPD spokesperson said.

The LAPD is among Flock’s largest government customers. The Atlanta-based company operates a nationwide network of more than 80,000 cameras that scan license plates to help law enforcement track vehicles.

An LAPD audit report released in early July said the department had a three-year agreement with Flock, which operated 138 pole-mounted cameras in Los Angeles as of July 2023. The LAPD audit cited concerns that federal agencies could have access to data collected by Flock and that federal immigration authorities could seek access to it.

The data-sharing agreement was first reported in October 2025 by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, which said Flock had implemented an information-sharing pilot program that allowed federal agencies to access license plate data collected by local law enforcement agencies without the knowledge or consent of those agencies.

The Los Angeles Police Department is not the only one reconsidering its partnership with Flock

A growing number of law enforcement jurisdictions have moved away from Flock since 2025, including Mountain View, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara County, South Pasadena, Flagstaff, and Hillsborough, North Carolina.

In some places, breaking away from Flock has proven more difficult than signing up. In Dayton, Ohio, city workers recently covered company cameras with trash bags after an internal review found what officials described as “egregious violations” of city policy, including thousands of immigration-related searches. In Evanston, Illinois, officials said Flock reinstalled the cameras after the city took action to remove them, prompting a cease-and-desist letter before the devices were eventually removed months later.

Business Insider’s Nicole Einbinder previously reported that errors made by Flock’s automated license plate readers have led to innocent drivers being stopped at gunpoint, mauled by police dogs, or jailed after their vehicles were incorrectly marked. A Toledo man was arrested and suffered serious injuries after Flock’s camera mistakenly read the “7” on his license plate with a “2” and flagged the vehicle to police as stolen.

The setbacks come after years of rapid expansion for Flock, which has become a dominant player in the automated license plate reader market since its launch in 2017.

In early 2026, Amazon’s Ring also canceled a planned partnership with Flock days after a Ring ad aired during the Super Bowl sparked widespread backlash.

In a separate incident, U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg on Monday announced federal charges against a Texas man for allegedly leaving anti-Semitic and homophobic threats in Flock’s company voicemail inbox. The voicemail also accused the company of “violating the Constitution.”

Flock Safety’s spokesperson told Business Insider that the company will have ongoing conversations with the LAPD to address the “misconceptions” that led to the “disappointing pause” and that it hopes to soon resume its “successful partnership” with the LAPD.

“While this latest development comes as a surprise,” Flock’s spokesperson said, “we remain committed to continuing our active and ongoing conversations with the LAPD to find a path forward.”