Cop Tracked Her With Flock Cameras 600 Times | True Crime

Our Take

Credit to ShadowDossier for digging into this case, because it's exactly the nightmare scenario we've been warning about since Flock Safety cameras started multiplying on street corners nationwide. A police chief with access to the system allegedly used it to track an ex-girlfriend's movements over 600 times. That's not a hypothetical misuse case dreamed up by privacy advocates — it's what happens when you hand law enforcement a tool that logs every car, every route, every pattern of life, with almost no independent oversight on how often or why it gets queried.

Flock and departments that deploy these cameras love to talk about audit logs and 'reasonable suspicion' policies, but logs only matter if someone is actually checking them, and policies only matter if there's a real penalty for ignoring them. Six hundred searches on one person is not a slip-up or an accident — it's a pattern that should have triggered alarms long before any outside reporter or departmental complaint caught it. The fact that it took this long to surface tells you everything about how thin the internal guardrails really are.

This is why we keep pushing people to find out what's watching their own neighborhood. Check our camera map to see what's nearby, and if you want to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your city, our take-action page has concrete steps for making noise at your next city council meeting.