What can you do?
Find cameras. Follow the paper trail. Ask questions. Contact your representatives. Show up. You don't have to be an expert to hold surveillance accountable in your own community.
Get Involved →Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers are installed by police departments, neighborhoods, and businesses. They photograph passing vehicles, whether suspected of a crime or not, and turn every sighting into searchable data.
As you drive past, Flock can record a vehicle image, license plate, make, model, color, distinguishing features, date, time, and camera location. You are not stopped. You are not notified. You do not have to be suspected of anything.
Every sighting adds another time and place. Search them together and a person can map patterns tied to your home, work, school, worship, medical care, protests, and the people you visit.
Authorized users can search recent vehicle sightings in seconds and, where agencies share access, reach far beyond their own cameras. Every search is logged, but a log does not prevent abuse. It only records it for someone to discover later.
Police officers have been charged with using Flock data for personal reasons. Misread plates and unverified alerts have led innocent drivers to be held at gunpoint, jailed, and injured. The technology creates the record. People decide whom to search, and whether to verify before acting.
Documented cases
Every entry below is a real, reported incident involving Flock Safety cameras or automated license plate readers: council votes, contract cancellations, officers charged with misusing plate data, lawsuits, and audits. Each links back to the outlets that reported it.
Summaries are written from published reporting and link to the original sources. BlockFlockNow does not reproduce article text.
These are the incidents we judged significant enough to write up. Every article we find is catalogued either way. Search the full archive →
Public meetings, hearings, and rallies about license-plate-reader surveillance. Every listing is reviewed by a person before it appears.
Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers are installed by police departments, neighborhoods, and businesses. They photograph passing vehicles, whether suspected of a crime or not, and turn every sighting into searchable data.
As you drive past, Flock can record a vehicle image, license plate, make, model, color, distinguishing features, date, time, and camera location. You are not stopped. You are not notified. You do not have to be suspected of anything.
Every sighting adds another time and place. Search them together and a person can map patterns tied to your home, work, school, worship, medical care, protests, and the people you visit.
Authorized users can search recent vehicle sightings in seconds and, where agencies share access, reach far beyond their own cameras. Every search is logged, but a log does not prevent abuse. It only records it for someone to discover later.
Police officers have been charged with using Flock data for personal reasons. Misread plates and unverified alerts have led innocent drivers to be held at gunpoint, jailed, and injured. The technology creates the record. People decide whom to search, and whether to verify before acting.
Find cameras. Follow the paper trail. Ask questions. Contact your representatives. Show up. You don't have to be an expert to hold surveillance accountable in your own community.
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