A cop tracked his ex hundreds of times using Flock cameras

Our Take

Credit to Verified Privacy VPN for digging into this story, because it's exactly the nightmare scenario critics of Flock Safety have been warning about for years. A system sold as a tool to catch car thieves and kidnappers turns out to be just as useful for a jealous ex-boyfriend with a badge and a login. No two-factor authentication, no real audit trail that anyone bothered to check until it was too late — this isn't a hypothetical, it's a pattern.

What makes this worse is the math. If one person with access can run hundreds of unlogged or unnoticed searches on an ex-partner, multiply that by every officer, dispatcher, and contractor who has credentials to these networks nationwide. Flock's own audit logs are only as good as the agencies willing to actually review them, and most don't. Departments love to tout 'accountability' features in press releases while quietly skipping the follow-up that would catch exactly this kind of abuse.

This is why we keep mapping where these cameras live and pushing people to get involved locally — because policy fights at city council meetings are usually the only real check on misuse. Check the map to see what's watching your own neighborhood, and hit up take action if you want to push back before your town becomes the next cautionary tale.