Have You Been Flocked? 🚔
The short version: Austin Tilley tests 'Have I Been Flocked?', showing how public audit logs let anyone check if police ran their plate through Flock's ALPR network.
Our Take
Credit to Austin Tilley for putting a spotlight on Have I Been Flocked?, a tool that mines the public audit logs Flock systems generate every time a plate gets searched. Watching him actually run his own plate and dig through the results is a good reminder that these audit trails exist precisely because agencies insist the system is accountable and transparent — so citizens should absolutely be using them to check that claim.
What the video underscores, even if it doesn't say it outright, is how casually millions of searches get logged without most drivers ever knowing they were part of them. A search tool like this doesn't fix the underlying problem — it just makes visible what was already happening in the background: a rolling record of where your car has been, available to whichever agency has query access, with 'audit logs' being the only real check on abuse.
If this video makes you want to know whether there's a Flock camera on your own commute, check our camera map to see what's already deployed near you, and head to take-action for ways to push back on ALPR expansion in your city or county.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Austin Tilley, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.