2 Racine police officers under investigation for alleged Flock camera misuse

Our Take

TMJ4 News is reporting that Racine police now have two officers under internal investigation for allegedly misusing Flock cameras, arriving in the same week that two Milwaukee officers head to court on criminal charges for exactly this kind of abuse. That's not a coincidence, it's a pattern. Every time Flock or local police insist these networks are tightly controlled and 'audit-logged,' another case surfaces showing an officer used the system to snoop on an ex, a family member, or someone with zero connection to an actual investigation.

This is the core problem with mass ALPR surveillance: the technology doesn't just get misused in theory, it gets misused by the very people entrusted to run it responsibly. Audit logs mean nothing if nobody's reviewing them until a victim complains or a reporter starts asking questions. Wisconsin now has multiple documented cases in a matter of days, and that's almost certainly the tip of the iceberg, since most agencies don't proactively disclose this stuff.

Credit to TMJ4 News for staying on this story instead of letting it quietly disappear into a department statement. If you want to know whether Flock cameras are watching your own neighborhood, check our map, and if you think your city council should be asking harder questions before renewing a Flock contract, our take-action page has tools to help you push back.