NEW: Flock cameras used to track stalker twin sisters
The short version: WHAS11 reports Louisville police used Flock cameras to track twin sisters accused of stalking two corrections officers, a case likely to be held up as proof the network works.
Our Take
Credit to WHAS11 for the reporting. Cases like this are exactly why Flock Safety's sales pitch works so well on city councils: a scary, sympathetic crime, a tidy resolution, and a camera network that gets to take the victory lap. Nobody wants to be the person arguing against catching someone who left a black rose on a cop's car. But "it helped solve this one case" is not the same as "this is a proportionate, well-governed surveillance system," and those two questions keep getting flattened into one in local news coverage.
What rarely makes the broadcast is how many other plates got scanned, stored, and cross-referenced to get to that result, who else had access to that data, how long it sits in the system, and whether there's any audit trail when an officer runs a plate for reasons that have nothing to do with a stalking case. Flock's own transparency portals show how often these networks get queried for things far removed from violent crime, and Louisville residents deserve to know those numbers for their own city, not just the headline arrest.
If you want to see how dense Flock's and other ALPR coverage already is where you live, 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 concrete steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of WHAS11, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.