Flock Safety offers voluntary buyouts — TechCrunch
Surveillance technology company Flock Safety has offered a severance package to employees who voluntarily leave their jobs. As TechCrunch reports, citing Wired, the company described the payments in an internal message as “generous” and the most generous it has ever offered.
Voluntary departures
Flock Safety expects that a significant portion of its 1,500-strong workforce will be interested in the offer. The company also said it would approve payments for most employees who want to take them.
According to Wired, without this program Flock Safety would “almost certainly” have had to cut staff. TechCrunch notes that voluntary departures may allow the company to part ways with employees demoralized by the backlash against its license plate recognition technology.
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Criticism of the technology
In August, The Washington Post identified 46 cases in which police officers were accused of improperly using Flock’s technology. These included cases in which law enforcement officers were accused of stalking their wives, girlfriends, or former partners.
Florida and Texas said they would stop using the startup’s technology. An anti-surveillance group reported that 90 cities abandoned Flock in August, four times the figure of the previous month. Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley previously said on the All-In podcast that the criticism had done the greatest damage to the company’s “internal morale.”
