Flock founder says technology would have helped find Nancy Guthrie
Garrett Langley said Flock’s license-plate cameras would have solved the missing-person case as the company faces privacy criticism and new safeguards.
- Garrett Langley, CEO of Flock Safety, told Vanity Fair his company's surveillance technology would have "one hundred percent" solved Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping case, missing for six months.
- Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Pima County, Arizona, home in February after FBI investigators said she was kidnapped; her daughter, TODAY anchor Savannah Guthrie, expressed the family's ongoing agony.
- Critics argue Flock Safety cameras invade personal privacy, and recent examples of agencies misusing the technology have led several Arizona jurisdictions to reconsider contracts with the company.
- To address mounting concerns, Flock announced new privacy safeguards, including reducing its recommended data-retention period from 30 days to seven, and promised to publish contractual language outlining data ownership.
- Flock recently claimed it helped solve 10,000 missing-person cases in 2025, though critics note this estimate relies on a limited sample of agencies, fueling ongoing debate over public safety versus privacy.
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Nancy Guthrie, though, has been missing for over six months. No suspect has been arrested yet. But Flock Safety co-founder, however, made an explosive claim.Garett Langley, in an interview with...
Flock founder says technology would have helped find Nancy Guthrie
Amid rising concerns over police departments use of Flock Safety cameras, the companys founder said he believes the technology would have solved Nancy Guthries missing-person case.We would have solved that case, Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety, told Vanity Fair. One hundred percent, he added. Theres no doubt in my mind.Guthrie disappeared in February after FBI investigators said she was kidnapped from her home in Pima County, Ar…
"We would have solved this case," says Garrett Langley with the confidence of John Carpenter answering the last question about Who Wants to Win Millions. The co-founder and great boss of Flock Safety, the increasingly infamous license plate reading company, is sitting next to a small dining table [...]
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