Officer Used FLOCK Cameras To Track His Wife 717 TIMES?! 😳📸 #FLOCKCameras #Shorts
The short version: A YouTube Short from ClassE recaps allegations—amplified by attorney Ben Crump—that an officer ran 717 Flock ALPR searches to track his estranged wife, exposing the system's built-in potential for abuse.
Our Take
Creator Erik Harmon, posting under the channel ClassE, is circulating one of the more jaw-dropping allegations to come out of the Flock Safety controversy: an officer accused of running hundreds of searches on a Flock-connected license plate network to keep tabs on his estranged wife. The number being reported, 717, is staggering on its own, but the deeper story is what it reveals about the architecture of these systems — they log every plate that passes a camera, and that data is only as safe as the discretion of whoever has login credentials.
We can't verify the specific figures in this video independently, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. But the pattern is familiar. Flock and similar ALPR vendors market audit logs and 'use policies' as safeguards, yet those protections only matter if departments actually review the logs and discipline misuse before it becomes a news story — or in this case, a legal matter attorney Ben Crump is apparently weighing in on. A tool built to find stolen cars or Amber Alert suspects becomes a stalking instrument the moment nobody is watching the watchers.
This is exactly why we built our camera map — so residents can see where this infrastructure exists in their own neighborhoods, ask their local agencies for audit policies, and push for real accountability before the next 'alleged 717 searches' story breaks in their town. If you want to push back locally, our take-action guide is a good place to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ClassE, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.