5 Georgia Police Officers Arrested for Stalking Using Flock Cameras
The short version: Georgia officers allegedly used Flock cameras to stalk people, proving the surveillance-abuse warnings critics have made for years weren't hypothetical.
Our Take
Credit to Clay for surfacing this one, because it's exactly the scenario Flock Safety insists can't happen: officers with badge-level access to a nationwide ALPR network allegedly using it not to solve crimes, but to track people for personal reasons. Five arrests in Georgia isn't a glitch in the system — it's the system working exactly as designed, just pointed at the wrong target. When you build a tool that logs everyone's movements and hand the keys to anyone with a login, "misuse" isn't a hypothetical risk, it's a business model.
Flock and its police partners love to talk about audit logs and "access controls" like they're a real deterrent. But an audit log only catches abuse after the fact — after someone's already been followed, surveilled, or worse. The people getting stalked don't get a warning that an officer queried their plate; they just get a camera flash in the stomach when they find out later. This is the same database that departments across the country are plugging into, often with little public oversight over who's searching what and why.
If your town has Flock cameras, you deserve to know it, and you deserve a say in whether that data-sharing web should exist at all. Check our map to see what's already watching your streets, and hit up our action page if you want to push back before your local department becomes the next headline.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Clay, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.