The Plate-Camera CEO Told Cops It Never Happened 🦊🚔 #Flock #Surveillance

Our Take

Flock Safety has spent the past year insisting its license-plate network isn't being weaponized against people seeking reproductive care. Sly Decodes digs into an audit log that tells a different story: a Texas deputy in May 2025 allegedly ran a nationwide search for a woman connected to abortion pills, using a system Flock's own CEO had publicly claimed wasn't being used that way. Credit to Sly Decodes for pulling the documentation instead of just taking the company's word for it.

This is the core problem with ALPR networks like Flock's: thousands of agencies can query a shared database with almost no real-time oversight, and the public only finds out what happened after the fact, if ever. 'It never happened' is a hard claim to make when the audit trail says otherwise. When a company controls both the surveillance infrastructure and the narrative about how it's used, denials start to look less like reassurance and more like damage control.

If you want to know whether a Flock camera is watching your street right now, check our camera map, and if your city council is voting on a contract, our take-action page has the tools to push back before the cameras go up, not after the audit logs leak.