Cop performs 166 flock searches on ex #policemisconduct #flock

Our Take

Credit to Shields of Shame for surfacing this one, because it's the case Flock Safety and police departments don't want you thinking about. We're told Officer Ellie Anna Hammond, 24, ran 166 searches through the Flock network on an ex before getting fired. That's not an officer casually looking up a plate during an investigation — that's a pattern, a habit, a tool being used exactly how critics have warned it would be: as a personal surveillance system with a badge attached.

Flock and its police partners love to sell these cameras as crime-fighting infrastructure, but every audit log is only as trustworthy as the person logging in. There's no camera watching the officer watching you. Departments routinely promise 'audit trails' and 'policy safeguards,' yet it took 166 queries before anyone apparently noticed or acted. That's the real story: the system worked as designed, and the design has no meaningful brakes on abuse until someone gets caught stalking an ex-partner with government hardware.

This is exactly why we track where these cameras live and push people to act before the next Hammond gets access. Check our map to see what's watching your town, and hit up take action if you want your city council to answer for it.