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Flock Safety opens largest U.S. manufacturing site in Smyrna, touts drones and public-safety partnerships
Summary
Flock Safety opened what it described as its largest U.S. manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Georgia, officials said the 100,000-square-foot plant will produce teleoperated drones and expand a license-plate-recognition product used by local police; officials praised job creation and law-enforcement results, and demonstrated a drone flight.
Flock Safety on Thursday formally opened what company founder Garrett Langley described as its largest manufacturing facility in the United States in Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia, joining local and state officials for a demonstration of teleoperated drones and remarks about jobs and public safety.
The facility — described by speakers at the event as a 100,000-square-foot production site that the company said will “one day employ over 200 hardworking Georgians” — represents an expansion of Flock’s manufacturing and aviation work in Metro Atlanta alongside the company’s license-plate-recognition cameras used by local police, officials said.
“Today, we are officially opening our largest manufacturing facility in the country here in our hometown of Atlanta, Georgia,” Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety, said. Langley framed the company’s work as combining people, technology and policy to make…
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