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Ring and Flock Safety say a planned connection between their systems was canceled February 12, 2026, before launch, and no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock through it.
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The short answer for Pacific Grove readers is that Flock Safety has no direct integration with Ring, and Ring footage is not automatically sent to Flock. A connection announced in October 2025 was canceled before it launched. Ring and Flock both say no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock through the planned tool.
Pacific Grove's original authorization described only a vehicle-and-plate system. The March 1, 2023 City Council staff report proposed up to 12 fixed automatic license-plate-reader cameras at key city entrances and exits. It said the cameras were designed to capture vehicle and plate images and identify vehicle make and model, but not occupants; it did not describe facial recognition or any Ring connection. Because that record predates the later national proposal, it establishes the original local scope—not the current integration status, camera count, retention setting or sharing relationships. The current Ring/Flock status comes from the companies' February 2026 cancellation statements.
The later national Ring proposal was narrower than camera-feed access. Ring's October 16, 2025 announcement said public-safety agencies using Flock Nova or FlockOS would have been able to issue a Community Request tied to a specific incident, location, timeframe and investigation code. A Ring owner could choose particular recorded clips to share, ignore the request or turn off the notifications. The agency could not see who received a request or declined to respond. Nothing in the announced workflow gave an agency an ongoing or live view through a private Ring camera.
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Ring and Flock canceled the planned integration February 12. Ring said its review found the work would require more time and resources than anticipated; Flock separately confirmed that the integration never launched. The proposal had drawn privacy criticism, but the companies did not say that criticism caused the cancellation.
Ring's current Community Requests documentation describes a separate workflow using Axon Evidence, not Flock. A request appears in the Neighbors feed for a defined area, and only recordings an owner deliberately selects are transferred. Ring warns that a participating owner's home address and account email are provided to the investigator with the selected footage.
Voluntary sharing is not the only way police may obtain a stored recording. Ring's current law-enforcement guidelines say video content may be produced in response to a valid and binding search warrant, but not a subpoena. Ring also reserves the right to respond to an emergency request involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury. Those requests go through Amazon's law-enforcement portal; they are not Flock access to a Ring feed.
Flock does operate its own camera and software ecosystem. Its products include license-plate readers and live or recorded video cameras, while FlockOS can connect customer-authorized public and private video and other systems. That means a Ring clip obtained and supplied separately should not be confused with a direct Ring integration. The verified point is narrower and firm: the announced Ring-to-Flock Community Requests connection never went live, no Ring videos were transferred through it, and it never provided blanket access to private Ring feeds.
Pacific Grove Police Department separately operates a voluntary Camera Registration Program. The city's page says residents and businesses register the locations of their surveillance systems so officers can identify nearby cameras after a crime and ask community members to help collect evidence. The city does not describe that registry as automatic or live camera access, and it is separate from the Flock system.
PGPD's Flock transparency portal remains the local source for Flock policy and usage information. The broader questions around license-plate data, retention, sharing and oversight remain separate from this Ring clarification and continue to be tracked on the MyPG.news Accountability desk.