The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed

· Aug 18, 2026 at 9:21 AM

“I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.”

The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed — Image: Flock Safety and akasped on Flickr.

The National Park Service (NPS), the agency tasked with managing the U.S. national parks and monuments, has purchased Flock cameras and had them installed at parks including in Yosemite.

Current and former NPS rangers are not happy about it.