Cop Allegedly Tracked a Man 76 TIMES Using Flock Cameras 😳
The short version: An Amarillo officer allegedly ran one man's plate through Flock cameras 76 times with no case file to justify it — and the city, not the man, is the named victim.
Our Take
Credit to Derrick Evans for surfacing a story that should worry anyone who's been told Flock Safety cameras are just for solving crimes. A former Amarillo officer is facing 78 misdemeanor counts for allegedly running one person's plate through the city's ALPR network 76 times with no legitimate case attached. That's not a glitch or a gray area — that's a pattern, and it reportedly went unnoticed until someone finally flagged it.
The detail that should stop you cold is who prosecutors are calling the "victim" in this case: the City of Amarillo, not the man who was allegedly tracked dozens of times without his knowledge or consent. That framing tells you everything about how these systems are built and who they're designed to answer to. The audit trail exists to protect the department's liability, not the person whose movements got logged. Tighter audits and new restrictions announced after the fact are a start, but they're reactive — this officer wasn't caught by the safeguards, he was caught by luck or persistence from someone outside the system.
This is exactly why we keep pushing people to know where these cameras actually are in their own communities — check our camera map — and to push back before a network like this gets installed, or demand real oversight if it already has. One bad audit after 76 searches isn't a safeguard. It's a warning.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Derrick Evans, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.