Company
Perchpoint
Every Street, Gently Observed.
- Known for
- Licence-plate cameras on poles nobody remembers permitting. A national search network where an officer in one state can look up a driver in another for any reason or none. A 'transparency portal' that explains everything except who searched. Greeting each adverse ruling with a feature launch, occasionally with 'a learning opportunity'.
- Character
- Soft-spoken and relentlessly reassuring, like a homeowners' association newsletter. Calls every camera a 'neighbourhood partner'. Hands records to any agency that asks, usually before the question is finished, and calls it 'collaboration'. Never says 'surveillance'; says 'awareness'.
In the news
Judge Calls Perchpoint Network 'Dragnet-Type'; Company Calls Judge 'Valued Community Feedback'
A federal judge ruled that a deputy needed a warrant to look up a driver whose only offence was a California plate. Perchpoint, whose network exists so nobody has to explain a search, is treating the explanation as an upsell.
5 Oct 2026
