1. United States
2. Kan.
3. Letter

I am writing to urge you to immediately terminate all contracts with Flock Safety and halt any planned deployments of their surveillance systems. Recent security failures demonstrate that this company's technology poses unacceptable risks to constituent safety and privacy. For an unknown period, at least 60 Flock Safety Condor PTZ cameras were accessible to anyone on the internet without passwords or authentication. Security researchers Benn Jordan and Jon Gaines discovered the vulnerability using Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices. Journalists from 404 Media verified the exposure by visiting a camera location in Bakersfield, California, where they watched themselves on the live feed while colleagues hundreds of miles away accessed the same stream simultaneously. The exposed cameras monitored parking lots, public trails, bike paths, residential areas, and playgrounds with children. Anyone with a web browser could access live feeds, download 30 days of archived footage, access administrator panels, change camera positioning, delete recordings, or disable cameras entirely. This means criminals could have surveilled locations to plan crimes, tracked individuals' daily routines, identified who visits specific businesses, or deleted evidence of their activities. Flock Safety operates in more than 5,000 communities across 49 states, processing billions of vehicle scans monthly. The company dismissed this breach as a "limited misconfiguration on a very small number of devices" but refused to disclose how long cameras were exposed or whether unauthorized access occurred. Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Flock, citing concerns that the company does not enforce multi-factor authentication, leaving surveillance networks vulnerable to stolen or weak passwords. This incident reveals that Flock Safety cannot be trusted to secure the sensitive surveillance infrastructure it sells to law enforcement and communities. I request that you immediately terminate existing Flock Safety contracts, prohibit future deployments, and demand a full accounting of which cameras were exposed and for how long. Our constituents deserve surveillance systems that protect rather than endanger them.