He didn’t commit a crime, but Flock license alerts keep getting him pulled over
The short version: 9NEWS shows a Colorado driver repeatedly pulled over because a bad hot-list entry keeps triggering Flock alerts, proving these dragnets punish innocent people with zero accountability.
Our Take
Credit to 9NEWS for putting a human face on what we keep warning about: Flock's ALPR network doesn't just log where you drive, it actively flags you to police based on lists that nobody seems to be double-checking. This driver did nothing wrong, yet he's been stopped again and again because a hot-list entry was never corrected. That's not a glitch, that's the entire business model — mass scanning plus automated alerts, with human judgment shoved to the very end of the chain, after the guns are already drawn.
What should terrify anyone paying attention is how little recourse this man has. There's no simple appeals process, no guaranteed audit trail forcing an agency to explain why a stale or wrong hot-list entry stayed active. Flock and its police customers love to tout accuracy and efficiency, but stories like this show the system fails exactly the way critics predicted: quietly, repeatedly, and with the burden falling entirely on the wrongly flagged person to prove their innocence over and over at gunpoint or curbside.
This is why we track this infrastructure. If a camera near you is feeding one of these hot lists, you deserve to know it exists. Check our map to see what's watching your routes, and hit up take-action resources if you want to push back on your local agency's use of Flock before you become the next person mistakenly pulled over for a crime you didn't commit.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of 9NEWS, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.