Garrett Langley built Flock Safety to fight crime. What he created instead accelerates a future where every drive leaves a permanent digital trail. And that trail leads straight to a largely unregulated private firm holding billions of location records on ordinary Americans. The Atlanta-based company deploys automated license plate readers across thousands of communities. Its cameras capture not only plates but vehicle details, timestamps, and locations. They feed a centralized database that law enforcement agencies query millions of times each year. San Jose police and partner agencies alone ran 3,965,519 searches between June 2024 and June 2025, according to a complaint filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation . But the system goes far beyond local policing. Federal agencies tap in. Immigration enforcement teams search it. Data flows across state lines without consistent warrants or oversight. Cities from Austin to Mountain View have canceled contracts after discovering unauthorized federal access.…