# Garrett Langley Garrett Langley is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of [[Flock Safety, Inc.]]. In the signature block of his January 2025 letter to customers he identifies himself as "Founder and CEO / Flock Safety" (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 796). In Flock marketing materials swept into this production he is repeatedly described as "CEO & Founder / Flock Safety" (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 730, "Garrett Langley ... CEO & Founder / Flock Safety"). His email address appears in the record as [email protected] (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 795). Langley appears in this corpus in two distinct roles: as the named signatory on Flock Search Tool certifications issued to Little Rock Police Department users, and as the author of a direct-to-customer letter announcing that [[Axon Enterprise, Inc.]] would sever the companies' API partnership. ## Role in this corpus ### Signing LRPD Search Tool certifications The record indicates Langley's name appears as the signatory on Flock Safety Search Tool Certifications completed by LRPD personnel. Per the analysis digest, LRPD user Endya Allen completed the Flock Safety Search Tool Certification on 1/10/2024, with the certificate "signed by CEO Garrett Langley," and the certification text describes the Search Tool as the user's "command center for retrieving any image captures from the Flock Cameras located in your community" (digest entry citing Emails 1-24.pdf p. 861). Note: the certification page (p. 861) falls outside chunk_03 (pages 561-840), which was the chunk reviewed verbatim for this page; the wording above is carried from the findings digest and the verbatim certificate language at p. 861 was not independently confirmed against the chunk text in this pass. ### The Axon partnership letter (January 2025) On Friday, January 31, 2025, Langley sent LRPD a letter under the subject line "Axon plans to sever APIs with Flock" (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 795). The letter is signed "Garrett Langley / Founder and CEO / Flock Safety" (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 796). In it he writes: "I am disappointed to share that Axon made a surprise decision to end our partnership and cut off the API access that law enforcement depends upon. Axon decided that being open and collaborative is 'no longer in Axon's best interests,' and no additional reason was given to us" (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 795). The letter sets out three points, including that "Axon will no longer support new mutual customers starting July 24, 2025. They may continue to support existing customers, but it's unclear to what degree" (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 795). On the history of the relationship, Langley states: "Axon was actually an early investor in Flock Safety. Our patented Vehicle Fingerprint technology was integrated into their Fleet 3 devices upon launch 4 years ago. This integration allowed for the automatic transfer of Flock-derived evidence into Evidence.com, streamlining the process for law enforcement" (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 795). He further recounts that the two companies negotiated a broadened arrangement in the summer of 2024 and "agreed to it on August 28, 2024, and we have not spoken to Axon about it since signing that new partnership agreement" (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 795). Langley's letter frames Flock as the open partner and lists numerous third-party integrations across CAD, evidence, mapping, real-time software, and VMS categories, closing: "Many companies in the industry are aligned that the world is safer when we all work together. We hope that Axon comes to the same conclusion over time" (Emails 1-24.pdf p. 796). This is Flock's account. The competing account in the same production comes from Axon Founder and CEO [[Rick Smith]], whose later letter to the same customer base alleges Flock charged for API integrations and characterizes Flock's conduct as "blocking customers from using their own data" (Emails 1-24.pdf pp. 790-791). The two letters together constitute the documentary basis for [[Vendor Platform Lock-In and the Flock-Axon API Dispute]] and the [[2025-07 Axon Terminates Flock API Partnership]] event. ## Identification note Langley is named here as a government vendor's chief executive acting in his official corporate capacity. No personal-contact PII for Langley beyond his work email (which the record presents as a corporate address he invited customers to contact) is reproduced. ## Sources - [[Flock-Axon API Dispute and the Dual RTCC Stack]]