Flock begins a nationwide safety audit of its camera pole installations
Flock has started reviewing camera pole installations across its entire network, beginning in Tennessee, where sixteen cameras have already been fixed. Chief executive Garrett Langley announced the audit after meeting Steve Eimers, the Tennessee highway safety advocate known as the Real Guardrail Guy, who had raised concerns about how some poles are placed relative to the roadway. The company says its installation standards already comply with transportation, accessibility and engineering requirements, and frames the audit as optimising specific locations rather than correcting a fault. Whichever way it is framed, this is the outcome the safety reporting on this desk was pointing at: one advocate, working the road-safety argument rather than the privacy one, moved a national vendor to review its own installed base.
From the reporting
- The audit covers pole installations across Flock's network and began with Tennessee.
- Sixteen cameras in Tennessee have already been replaced or adjusted.
- It followed a meeting between CEO Garrett Langley and Steve Eimers, a national highway safety advocate.
- Flock says poles identified as improvable will be adjusted.
- The company's own position is that its standards already comply and the audit optimises placement, not that anything was unsafe. That is Flock's characterisation and is recorded as such.
- This is a vendor-wide change of practice rather than a contract outcome, which is why it sits under safety review rather than as a win.
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