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# Cities struggle to escape Flock Safety contracts
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/cities-struggle-to-escape-flock-safety-contracts/
- Published: 2026-11-03T00:15:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-03T00:15:34.000Z
- Description: Flock Safety’s surveillance camera network has become harder to exit than to enter. Municipalities face restrictive contract terms and technical dependencies that effectively lock them in—a pattern echoing across civic technology, where vendors exploit government procurement inertia.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-culture, regulation, policy, surveillance

Source: [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1024232/flock-ignoring-cancel-contracts?ref=adjacent.media)

Flock Safety's surveillance camera network has become harder to exit than to enter. Municipalities face restrictive contract terms and technical dependencies that effectively lock them in—a pattern echoing across civic technology, where vendors exploit government procurement inertia. Once ALPR cameras integrate into police workflows and city budgets, switching costs and institutional friction can outweigh political pressure to leave, even when communities express buyer's remorse.