Dashcam Shows Cop Stalking Women He Tracked Using AI ALPR Cameras
The short version: A Florida officer allegedly used Flock-style ALPR lookups to track and stalk a woman he met on a TV set, dashcam footage reported by 404 Media and covered by The Cyber Security Admin shows.
Our Take
This is the nightmare scenario every ALPR critic has been warning about, not a hypothetical one. According to reporting from 404 Media, a Florida officer allegedly ran license plate reader queries to locate and then confront a woman he'd met socially — footage captured on his own dashcam. The Cyber Security Admin's video walks through that footage and the reporting, and it's worth watching precisely because it's so mundane: no hackers, no foreign adversary, just a badge and a database with no one watching the watcher.
Flock Safety and similar vendors love to pitch these networks as crime-fighting tools with tidy audit trails. But an audit log only matters if someone actually reviews it, and in case after case — this one included — the oversight only shows up after a journalist or a victim forces the issue. The tech doesn't just catch stolen cars; it hands anyone with login access a way to find out where a specific person lives, works, and drives, any time they want. That's not a bug in the system. That's the system working exactly as designed, just pointed at the wrong target.
If you want to know how many of these cameras are watching your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment where you live, our take-action page has concrete next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Cyber Security Admin, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.