Primax shipments deepen questions about where Flock Safety assembles cameras

WIRED traced increasing Primax shipments from Thailand while Flock Safety's recent sales materials stopped identifying where its license plate cameras receive final assembly.

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Primary source: WIRED

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Flock Safety sells networked surveillance hardware to public agencies, making component provenance and final assembly relevant to procurement. Flock Safety says its products are NDAA compliant, while WIRED could not determine where its current license plate cameras are assembled or precisely what Primax supplies.

A modern license plate recognition camera sits on a wooden shipping crate, with a blurred industrial background hinting at its journey to a police network.

Garrett Langley's Flock Safety once told public buyers that its license plate cameras were made in the US. Its current sales materials no longer identify where those cameras receive final assembly, while import records show increasing shipments of cameras, radar systems and other components from Primax Electronics in Thailand, according to a September 17th investigation by WIRED.…

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