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Flock Safety quietly hired a sitting California mayor. Now he’s suing Flock.

Last year, police surveillance startup Flock Safety hired the mayor of a California city with over 200,000 residents to promote its products. But the

“Disturbing to see claims that this company would pressure staff to unethically misuse a government position,” Albert Fox Cahn, founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, tells TechCrunch. Cabrera also claims he suffered retaliation for raising concerns that Flock was significantly underreporting the number of surveillance cameras installed in Carmel-by-the-Sea while working on a project there. In September, the Texas Department of Public Safety sent Flock a cease and desist, claiming it did not have the proper license to operate in private homes and businesses.

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