Ring’s Flock breakup doesn’t fix its real problem
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
created: Feb. 14, 2026, 1 p.m. | updated: Feb. 15, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
Instead, the company claims it canceled Flock’s integration with its Community Requests tool because it would “require significantly more time and resources than anticipated.”Sure.
While Ring has parted ways with Flock, its Community Requests tool hasn’t changed.
Community Requests was introduced by Siminoff upon his return, following his predecessor’s canning of Ring’s first controversial police-request tool.
Ring maintains that no federal agencies, including ICE, can use Community Requests to ask for footage from Ring users.
If Ring ditched Flock because of its ICE ties, it would make sense to ditch Axon, too.
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