Garrett Langley
The founder and CEO of Flock Safety.
First Mentioned
8/19/2026, 6:36:09 AM
Last Updated
8/19/2026, 6:43:05 AM
Research Retrieved
8/19/2026, 6:43:05 AM
Summary
Garrett Langley is an American technology entrepreneur, electrical engineer, and the founder and CEO of Flock Safety (Flock Group Inc.), a public safety technology company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009 and founding early-stage ventures such as Experience (acquired by Cox Enterprises) and Clutch, Langley co-founded Flock Safety in late 2017. Under his leadership, the company developed an expansive public safety network featuring solar-powered automated license plate readers (ALPR), drones, gunshot detection, and AI-enabled video surveillance systems. The company's technology is used by law enforcement, homeowner associations, and local governments across more than 5,000 communities in 49 states. As CEO, Langley navigates complex public scrutiny surrounding mass surveillance, police oversight, data retention policies, and privacy concerns, advocating for measures such as system audit logs and transparency portals while engaging in high-profile public debates on privacy versus public safety.
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Research Data
Extracted Attributes
Spouse
Megan Langley
Children
Sumner Langley
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Education
B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (2009)
Previous Ventures
Experience (acquired by Cox Enterprises for $200 million in 2014), Clutch, Firethorn
Role / Occupation
Founder and Chief Executive Officer (Flock Safety), Serial Entrepreneur, Electrical Engineer
Alma Mater / Affiliations
Georgia Institute of Technology (Alumni Association Board of Trustees, Alexander Thorpe Fund Board of Trustees, Sigma Chi fraternity)
Timeline
- Garrett Langley graduates from the Georgia Institute of Technology with an electrical engineering degree. (Source: Web Search Results (All American Speakers))
2009-05-01
- Langley's mobile live-event platform company, Experience, is acquired by Cox Enterprises for $200 million. (Source: Web Search Results (All American Speakers))
2014-01-01
- Langley co-founds Flock Safety in Atlanta, Georgia, to build ALPR hardware and public safety software following neighborhood break-ins. (Source: Wikipedia & Web Search Results (InVenture Prize, Outsider Inc.))
2017-10-01
- Langley appears in recorded discussions regarding Flock Safety's mission to clear crimes, solar camera engineering, and autonomous drone capabilities. (Source: Web Search Results (YouTube/Stripe))
2026-03-05
Wikipedia
View on WikipediaFlock Safety
Flock Group Inc., doing business as Flock Safety, is a privately held American manufacturer and operator of surveillance hardware and software, particularly automated license plate recognition (ALPR), mass video surveillance, gunfire locator systems, and supporting software to integrate the data gathered by these technologies. Founded in 2017, Flock operates such systems under contract with law enforcement agencies, neighborhood associations, and private property owners. As of 2025, Flock says that it operates in over 5,000 communities across 49 US states, and performs over 20 billion scans of vehicles in the US every month. Flock Safety's network consists of cameras, image recognition, and machine learning, which share data with police departments. Flock markets their services to law enforcement, homeowner associations and similar community organizations as tools for crime prevention and investigations. Flock has been described by critics as an example of mass surveillance, and their efficacy and effects on privacy and other civil liberties are the subject of public scrutiny, debate, and litigation.
Web Search Results
- Garret Langley | InVenture Prize
Garrett Langley is a technology entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in early stage companies across Banking, Automotive, Live Events, and now in Public Safety. Langley currently serves as CEO of Flock (flocksafety.com), an Atlanta based startup focused on making communities safer. At Flock, Langley has raised over $20M in venture capital from YCombinator, Matrix Partners, and Founders Fund since starting the company in late 2017. Today, they provide service to customers in over 36 states and help police solve more than 15 crimes every hour. Prior to Flock, Langley launched Clutch, a monthly car subscription service that provides the perfect car for every day, and Experience (acquired by Cox Enterprises), a mobile technology company focused on helping fans have fun at live [...] technology company focused on helping fans have fun at live events. Outside of work, Langley serves on the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees and the Alexander Thorpe Fund Board of Trustees. While at Georgia Tech, he served various leadership roles at his fraternity Sigma Chi. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Megan, son, Sumner, and dog, Olive.
- Lessons from Garrett Langley
Skip to content Antoine Buteau Search Profile 5 min read # Lessons from Garrett Langley Garrett Langley is the founder and CEO of Flock Safety, a technology company dedicated to eliminating crime through a national network of solar-powered, AI-enabled cameras. A serial entrepreneur and Georgia Tech alumnus, Langley has pioneered a community-centric approach to public safety that emphasizes objective evidence and rigorous privacy standards. This profile explores his insights on the intersection of technology, ethics, and the future of urban safety. ### Part 1: The Mission: Eliminating Crime
- Garrett Langley Biography | Booking Info for Speaking Engagements
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- Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime
# Garrett Langley of Flock Safety on building technology to solve crime ## Stripe 130 likes ### Description 9067 views Posted: 5 Mar 2026 Garrett Langley is the founder and CEO of Flock Safety, a public safety operating system that helps communities and law enforcement eliminate crime. He sits down with John to discuss why most crime is opportunistic, how Flock helps clear over one million crimes a year, and the engineering challenges of building solar-powered cameras and autonomous drones. They cover the shifting landscape of criminal technology, why hardware requires making "one-way door" decisions, and his vision for a future where technology prevents crime before it happens. Full transcript on Substack: Subscribe to Cheeky Pint Spotify: Apple Podcasts: Substack:
- 🎙️ Engineering the Safe City: Conviction, Scrutiny, and the Fight to Make Crime Obsolete w/ Garrett Langley, Founder & CEO, Flock Safety
Host Ian Hathaway interviews Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety, about building public safety technology with a mission to eliminate crime. Langley traces his Atlanta upbringing, his early computer repair business, lessons from his father’s relationship-driven sales approach, and his early career successes, including the acquisitions of Firethorn and Experience. After a post-exit identity crisis, he prioritized building with the right team and launched Flock after neighborhood break-ins revealed law enforcement needed actionable license plate data. He describes early traction, Y Combinator struggles, near-pivot moments, media-driven go-to-market, and a difficult fundraise amid skepticism about Atlanta, hardware, and law enforcement. They cover rapid scaling, new products, [...] Ian Hathaway: Welcome to another episode of Outsider Inc. I’m your host, Ian Hathaway. Today’s guest is Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety, one of the most consequential and closely watched technology companies being built in America today Flock builds public safety technology, including license plate recognition cameras, drones, gunshot detection, and real-time intelligence tools used by cities, law enforcement agencies, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods across the country Its mission is as ambitious as it [00:01:00] is provocative: to eliminate crime. [...] It’s a company that has grown far beyond what many investors thought was possible, in a category that sits at the center of some of the hardest questions in technology: safety, privacy , policing, trust, and civil liberties. In this conversation, we’ll talk about how Garrett discovered entrepreneurship, what early [00:02:00] success did and did not solve for him, and how Flock grew from solving local problems into a national public safety platform. We’ll get into the realities of building hardware and software for one of the most scrutinized categories in tech, the weight of the responsibility that comes with that scale, and what it means to build a company of this magnitude from Atlanta. Garrett, welcome to Outsider Inc Garrett Langley: thanks for having me. It’s good to see you