Flock Surveillance: Your Car's Location Exposed! #shorts

Our Take

Credit to BirthofBoaK for pulling this clip (via @TylerOliveira) into the spotlight — a single small-town officer running over 10,000 queries through a Flock Safety network. That's not a typo, and it's not an anomaly we should shrug off. When access logs show numbers like that, the obvious question isn't 'was this legal?' It's 'why does any one person need that kind of reach into where your car has been?'

This is the part of the Flock story that rarely gets the attention it deserves. The sales pitch to city councils is always about solving specific crimes — a stolen car, an Amber Alert, a hit-and-run. But the system doesn't know the difference between a warrant-backed search and a bored cop running plates on an ex, a neighbor, or a local activist. Ten thousand searches from one login is what happens when there's no meaningful audit trail, no real-time oversight, and no consequence for treating a surveillance database like a personal lookup tool.

Small towns are exactly where this kind of abuse festers, because there's less media scrutiny, fewer watchdogs, and often no public records request pending. If you want to see whether cameras like these are already watching your commute, check our camera map, and if your city is considering a Flock contract — or already has one running without real audit requirements — head over to our take-action page to find out how to push back.