More Flock Violations. Greer, SC.
The short version: A Greer, SC case reportedly involving officer misuse of Flock cameras underscores that ALPR abuse isn't hypothetical — it's a recurring pattern.
Our Take
Project Complicated's report out of Greer, South Carolina adds to a growing pile of cases where the people entrusted with license plate reader data are the ones abusing it. We can't verify every detail of this specific incident, but the broader pattern is well documented at this point: officers running plates for personal reasons, checking on exes, feeding information to people who have no business getting it. Flock Safety and local police departments love to tell the public these systems are locked down, audited, and only used for serious crime. Cases like this one are exactly why nobody should take that promise at face value.
This is the core problem with a nationwide network of always-on cameras logging where everyone drives, every single day. It's not just the risk of a hacker or a foreign government pulling the data — it's the guy with a badge and a login who decides the rules don't apply to him. Once that data exists, it gets misused, and the public rarely finds out unless someone gets caught or a journalist starts digging. Thank Project Complicated for doing that digging and keeping a spotlight on it.
If you want to know whether these cameras are already watching your own street, check our camera map. And if stories like this make you want to push back, our take-action page has concrete steps for raising this with your city council or police oversight board.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Project Complicated, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.