Cop Allegedly Searched His Ex’s Car 717 Times. Flock’s Fix?
The short version: Thin Blue Lies exposes how officers repeatedly weaponized Flock's ALPR network to stalk exes and coworkers, raising doubts that Flock's new 'safeguards' fix anything.
Our Take
Thin Blue Lies lays out a pattern we've been tracking for a while: give cops a searchable database of everyone's movements, and some of them will use it to stalk people they know personally. A Haines City officer allegedly ran 717 searches on his estranged wife's plate. A Pasadena sergeant reportedly tracked a female coworker before quietly resigning. Add that to the Coweta County audit findings, and you've got a body of evidence showing this isn't a hypothetical risk — it's a recurring failure mode of the technology itself.
Flock's response — more logging requirements, more audit trails — is the same playbook surveillance vendors always run after getting caught: promise better paperwork instead of asking whether cops should have this kind of power at all. Audit logs only catch abuse after the fact, and only if someone bothers to look. None of the cases in this video were stopped by a safeguard. They were stopped by reporters, whistleblowers, or the victims themselves noticing something was wrong.
This is exactly why we built our camera map — because the only real check on this network is public visibility into where it exists and who controls it. Departments love to tell you the system is audited and accountable right up until an audit reveals it wasn't. If you want to push back on ALPR deployment in your own town, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Thin Blue Lies, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.