Flock Safety: Check if your Car is in this Database
The short version: RedLightNews spotlights haveibeenflocked.com, a quick tool letting drivers check if Flock's ALPR network has logged their plate.
Our Take
Credit to RedLightNews for putting a spotlight on haveibeenflocked.com, a simple lookup tool that gives drivers a way to ask a question Flock Safety would rather you not think about too hard: has this company's camera network already logged my car? The fact that a third party had to build this tool at all says everything about how opaque Flock's default posture is. You shouldn't need a workaround to find out whether a private surveillance vendor has a file on your movements.
Tools like this matter because Flock's pitch has always leaned on the idea that ALPR data is boring, harmless metadata — just plates and timestamps, nothing to see here. But once you can actually check your own plate against the system, the abstraction collapses into something concrete: your car, your routes, your patterns, sitting in a database you never agreed to join, shared across a network of police departments and private subscribers you'll never meet. A short YouTube video that gets people clicking a link and typing in their plate does more to make that real than another privacy policy ever will.
If this video sends you down the rabbit hole, keep going. Check our camera map to see where Flock hardware is actually installed near you, and use our take-action page if you want to push back at a city council meeting or file a records request instead of just wondering.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of RedLightNews, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.