Flock Safety Under Fire: How an Internal Audit Exposed Police Tech Misuse

Our Take

Credit to WECT News 6 for digging into what Flock Safety and its police partners would rather you not think about too hard: these camera networks run almost entirely on trust. An employee resigning amid a state investigation into alleged misuse isn't a one-off scandal, it's a preview of what happens whenever you hand a local agency a searchable database of everyone's movements and tell them to police themselves.

Flock's whole sales pitch rests on audit logs and "accountability built in." But an audit log only matters if someone actually reads it, and this story shows that the catch came after the fact, not because the system prevented abuse in real time. That's the pattern nationwide: misuse gets discovered, not stopped, and only when a whistleblower, reporter, or state investigator bothers to look.

This is exactly why we track where these cameras live and who's buying them. If Brunswick County has a network, there's a good chance your county does too. Check our camera map to see what's watching your roads, and visit take-action for ways to push your local government toward real oversight before your data becomes someone else's misuse story.