Another Officer Fired for Misusing Flock Cameras. Utah, Keep the Pressure On
The short version: A North Carolina detective's firing for misusing Flock cameras, spotlighted by Cory Salisbury, shows abuse isn't rare—it's a pattern built into the system.
Our Take
Cory Salisbury's latest video flags yet another case of a law enforcement officer getting caught misusing Flock Safety's ALPR network, this time a sheriff's detective in North Carolina. Salisbury's point lands hard: this keeps happening. Not once, not twice, but over and over, in department after department, state after state. At some point "a few bad apples" stops being a credible excuse and starts looking like a predictable outcome of handing cops a searchable, frictionless database of everyone's movements with minimal oversight.
The pattern matters because firings are the exception, not the rule. For every officer caught running plates for personal reasons, stalking an ex, or digging up dirt outside any investigation, there are almost certainly others who never got flagged. Flock's audit logs only catch misuse if someone bothers to look, and departments have every incentive to quietly handle these cases internally rather than air them publicly. Utah residents pushing back, as Salisbury urges, are right to keep the pressure on local officials and ask hard questions about who's watching the watchers.
This is exactly why we built our camera map: you can't hold a surveillance system accountable if you don't even know where the cameras are. If your town has Flock infrastructure and you want to do something about it, our take-action resources walk through how to raise this at city council meetings and demand real transparency.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Cory Salisbury, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.