Cops Are Being FIRED For Using Flock Cameras to Do THIS!

Our Take

Credit to J.R. Wisdom for laying out the Christopher Goodson case in plain terms: a cop with access to a Flock Safety ALPR network allegedly used it to track his estranged wife's movements hundreds of times. That's not a hypothetical slippery-slope argument anymore — it's a criminal complaint. Every time someone tells you these cameras are just for finding stolen cars and Amber Alerts, cases like this are the receipt that says otherwise.

The uncomfortable truth is that audit logs and 'search justification' fields are the only thing standing between a massive plate-reading network and an officer's personal grudge list. Those logs only catch misuse after the fact, after hundreds of searches, after a pattern is obvious enough to force a resignation or a charge. Nobody is watching in real time, and most departments don't proactively audit at all until a victim or a reporter forces the issue. That's a policy failure, not a bug in the software.

This is exactly why we track deployments and push for local accountability — because the danger of these networks was never limited to bad actors outside law enforcement. Check our camera map to see what's watching your streets, and hit take-action if you want to push your city council for real audit transparency before your town becomes the next case study.