Police Officers are Using Flock Cameras to STALK THEIR EXES?! And Almost No One is Stopping Them...

Our Take

Credit to Ashley Brasfield for doing the digging most local news outlets won't: compiling cases where officers allegedly turned Flock Safety's license plate network into a personal surveillance tool against ex-partners. Fifty officers accused or charged, one running nearly 600 searches on a single woman's plate, another logging 395 queries over ten months before anyone noticed — this isn't a hypothetical "could be misused" scenario anymore. It's documented behavior, and it's happening inside departments that promised the public these systems were for solving crimes, not settling scores.

The pattern here is the real story: abuse surfaces almost exclusively through accident, public records requests, or victims stumbling onto sites like haveibeenflocked.com — not through internal audits departments claim to run. When the people with badge-level access to a nationwide plate-tracking grid face essentially no routine check on their searches, the technology's default state is unaccountable. That's not a bug Flock Safety or local police chiefs are eager to fix, because fixing it would mean admitting the audit trail was always theater.

This is exactly why we built the map — so you can see how far this surveillance net actually stretches in your area before you assume it's only catching speeders and stolen cars. If your town is on it, or should be, take action and push your council for real audit requirements, public logs, and consequences that don't require a victim to go viral first.