Cop BUSTED for STALKING her with surveillance cams
The short version: ReasonTV documents a Florida cop who allegedly used Flock ALPR access to track a woman he'd barely met, underscoring how easily plate-reader networks become stalking tools.
Our Take
ReasonTV's reporting lands on a theme we keep returning to: give someone a badge and a login to a nationwide camera network, and sooner or later that access gets used for something it was never supposed to do. This case is especially unsettling because it wasn't an ex-partner or a messy breakup — it was a woman the officer barely knew from a work encounter, which means the usual 'personal relationship' excuse doesn't even apply. If he can look her up, he can look anyone up.
Flock and similar ALPR systems are sold to city councils as tools for solving car thefts and Amber Alerts, but the audit logs keep telling a different story — officers running plates on dates, exes, rivals, and now apparently near-strangers. The company's answer is always the same: better policy, better training, more audits after the fact. None of that stops the lookup from happening in real time, and none of it helps the person being tracked know they're being watched until a reporter or an internal affairs complaint surfaces it.
This is why we push people to find out what's actually watching their own streets rather than trust assurances from vendors or police PR. Check our camera map to see what's nearby, and if your town is considering a Flock contract or already has one with no public audit trail, use our take-action resources to push for real oversight before the next 'cop busted' story is about your block.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of ReasonTV, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.