Nevada Deputies in Surveillance Scandal #shorts

Our Take

Credit to Auditing Reno 911 for digging into allegations that a former Carson City deputy, Ana Martinez, misused Flock Safety's ALPR network for personal reasons — reportedly tracking a partner and raising questions about ties to Washoe County deputies and dubious jailings. We can't verify the specifics beyond what's alleged, but the pattern is exactly what critics of this technology have warned about for years: once a department plugs into a nationwide license plate database, the only thing standing between "public safety tool" and "stalking apparatus" is internal policy and the honor system.

Flock markets its systems as crime-fighting infrastructure, but every scanner is also a surveillance node that logs where ordinary people drive, when, and how often. When access controls are loose and audit logs go unchecked, it's not hypothetical that an officer with a grudge or a personal interest can query the system like a personal GPS tracker. That's not a bug in the technology — it's baked into how these networks are built and governed, with little outside oversight and often no meaningful consequence until a scandal breaks.

Cases like this are why transparency and public records requests matter so much in this fight. If your town has Flock cameras, you deserve to know who can access that data and why. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your community, and visit our take-action page to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment near you.