Flock Erased Officer Names From Its Audit Logs
The short version: Verified Privacy VPN reports Flock stripped officer names from public audit logs, gutting the one tool communities used to catch ALPR misuse.
Our Take
Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net) dug into something we've been watching closely: Flock Safety's audit logs, once one of the only public windows into how cops actually use license plate readers. According to their reporting, Flock quietly pulled officer names out of those logs — the same logs that helped surface at least 20 documented misuse cases in Georgia in a single year. That's not a bug fix. That's removing the evidence trail right after people started using it.
This is the pattern we keep seeing with Flock: transparency features get added for PR, then rolled back the moment they're actually used to hold someone accountable. Audit logs only matter if the public and journalists can trace a search back to a name, a department, a justification. Strip the names and you've turned an accountability tool into a black box that just happens to look transparent from the outside.
If your department runs Flock cameras, this is exactly why local records requests and camera mapping matter more than ever — don't wait on the company to police itself. Check our map for cameras near you, and see what you can do to push your city council for real oversight.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net), published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.