All the smart home news, reviews, and gadgets you need to know aboutFollowing intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring has announced it is canceling the integration. Ring’s partnership with Flock was announced in October 2025 as part of Ring’s Community Requests program, which launched last September. It was designed to allow local law enforcement agencies that use Flock’s software to integrate directly with the program. Flock was the second partner Ring announced for Community Requests, the first being Axon, a law enforcement technology company known for making Tasers. But the end result is the same: law enforcement gets video from users if they choose to share it.