Flock Exposed - The Rest of the Field

Flock, Motorola Vigilant, Axon, and Rekor are the biggest names in license plate surveillance, but they are far from the only companies in this business. A genuinely crowded field of smaller vendors is competing for the same police, school, and municipal contracts - and some of them plug directly into Flock's own system rather than competing with it at all.

How Crowded Is This Field, Really

The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology division, in a roundup meant to help police compare options, lists 16 different ALPR providers. Separately, the security-industry analysts at IPVM tested nine ALPR products for accuracy, and another industry analyst identifies 46 distinct vendors operating in the ALPR space altogether.

Source: American Civil Liberties Union, "Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock"

News coverage examining ALPR camera ownership nationwide found that beyond Flock, another 5 percent of cameras are made by Motorola Solutions and 2 percent by a company called Genetec, with smaller companies including Axon, Axis Communications, and Neology also present in the mix - all working in essentially the same way.

Source: NewsNation, "It's not just Flock. These cameras, ALPRs may also be in your community"

Verkada

Verkada is described by industry analysts as the closest alternative to Flock for smaller cities looking to install ALPR technology without needing on-premise infrastructure, with a pitch built around integrating plate-reading with a broader suite of physical security cameras.

Source: Newsweek, "Flock's Major Rivals as Cameras Spark Increasing Backlash"

Verkada's ALPR product is considered the most direct analog to Flock's deployment model: cloud-managed cameras with no on-premise servers, remotely managed through a browser dashboard. The City of Saratoga listed Verkada alongside Flock, Axon, and Rekor as a vendor under active consideration in an April 2026 ALPR evaluation, and Ogallala Public Schools in Nebraska approved just over 100,000 dollars for 66 Verkada security cameras in March 2026 - a sign Verkada is growing specifically in K-12 and public campus deployments.

Source: Civic IQ, "Flock Safety Alternatives and Competitors: Top ALPR Solutions for Government Agencies in 2026"

Verkada, founded in 2016 and based in San Mateo, California, has grown quickly: in December 2025 the company reached a 5.8 billion dollar valuation in a 100 million dollar funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet's venture capital arm.

Source: actionstreamer.com, "Top 6 AI Surveillance Vendors for Enterprise in 2026"

Genetec (AutoVu)

Genetec sells ALPR under the product name AutoVu, deployable as fixed cameras at entrances or as mobile units, and marketed as part of a larger unified security platform combining video, access control, and analytics into one system.

Source: Coram AI, "Genetec vs Verkada vs Coram: Enterprise Security Platforms Compared"

Genetec pitches itself as non-proprietary and built on open architecture, letting agencies choose their own hardware rather than being locked into one vendor's cameras the way Flock and Verkada customers generally are - though it sells exclusively through certified channel partners rather than directly.

Source: Spot AI, "Genetec Competitors and Alternatives: 5 Compared"

Other Named Vendors in the Field

Additional companies identified across industry comparisons and privacy advocacy tracking include Avigilon (a Motorola Solutions brand offering high-end hardware with cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployment), Coram AI, Eagle Eye Networks, Axis Communications, Neology, Hanwha Vision, Voxel, Dataminr, Cloudastructure, and Rhombus - a mix of dedicated ALPR makers and broader video-surveillance platforms that have added plate-reading capability to compete for the same police and municipal contracts Flock pursues.

Source: Jalopnik, "Flock Cameras Aren't The Only License Plate Trackers Stalking Your Car's Every Movement"; NewsNation, "It's not just Flock. These cameras, ALPRs may also be in your community"

Not Competitors - Add-Ons: Flock's Own Partner Program

Separately from companies competing against Flock, Flock Safety runs its own official Partner Program, in which outside companies build products specifically designed to plug into Flock's own platform, FlockOS, as paid add-ons rather than replacements.

Source: Flock Safety, "Flock Safety Partner Program | Partners and Integrations"

StarChase, a listed Flock partner, makes GPS tags that attach to vehicles; integrating its technology with Flock Safety's platform is marketed as enabling tracking of tagged vehicles for what the companies describe as safer, coordinated pursuits.

Source: Flock Safety, "Flock Safety Partner Program | Partners and Integrations"

3Si Security Systems is another listed Flock partner, delivering what it calls crime intelligence directly to dispatch and first responders, combining covert GPS tracking, camera and video tools, and its own dispatch technology - its integration connects its trackers directly to license plate alerts inside FlockOS.

Source: Flock Safety, "Flock Safety Partner Program | Partners and Integrations"; 3Si Security Systems, "3Si and Flock Safety Partner"

CodeFour is listed as providing investigative software meant to expose illicit networks, integrated with Flock Safety to unlock additional data insights for what the partnership describes as strengthening community safety.

Source: Flock Safety, "Flock Safety Partner Program | Partners and Integrations"

TEI Innovations is listed as providing Real-Time Crime Center enabled physical security solutions, with its partnership described as uniting technologies to better protect vulnerable communities.

Source: Flock Safety, "Flock Safety Partner Program | Partners and Integrations"

All Traffic Solutions, also listed in the partner program, provides mobile traffic trailers that integrate with Flock's platform.

Source: Flock Safety, "Flock Safety Partner Program | Partners and Integrations"

Coreforce announced its own integration partnership with Flock Safety, plugging Flock's hotlist alerts and license plate recognition search results directly into Coreforce's own Real-Time Crime Center and Digital Evidence Management platforms - with Flock's Chief Strategy Officer describing the goal as responsibly integrating the Flock ecosystem with other tools agencies already use.

Source: Coreforce, "Flock Safety and Coreforce Announce Integration Partnership to Enhance Real-Time Awareness and Operational Efficiency for Law Enforcement"

Why This Matters

Two different things are happening at once in this industry, and they are easy to blur together. One is genuine competition: companies like Verkada, Genetec, Motorola, Axon, and Rekor are trying to win the same contracts away from Flock, which is part of why some towns that reject Flock specifically still end up with a similar system from a different vendor. The other is expansion of Flock's own reach: its official Partner Program means that even a town that only signed a contract for Flock's cameras may, without a separate town vote, end up with GPS vehicle tagging, third-party investigative software, or outside crime-center platforms all quietly wired into that same Flock account through an integration most residents never hear about.

Questions to Ask Your Town

Has your town's police department evaluated ALPR vendors beyond Flock, such as Verkada, Genetec, Motorola, Axon, or Rekor - and if so, is that comparison public record? If your town already has a Flock contract, has it added any of Flock's official partner integrations, such as StarChase GPS tags, 3Si tracking, CodeFour investigative software, or a Real-Time Crime Center platform like Coreforce, and did that require a separate vote or public notice? Who is responsible for knowing the full list of outside companies with some access to your town's plate-reader data once integrations like these are turned on?

This page will be updated as more factual sources become available.