DeFlock America: Cops Using Flock to Stalk + Dr Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) On His Healthcare Plan
The short version: Six Savannah, GA officers were reportedly fired for misusing Flock ALPR access, and The Greis Report's coverage shows abuse isn't hypothetical — it's happening now.
Our Take
Credit to The Greis Report for putting a number on what we've been warning about for years: six officers in Savannah, Georgia reportedly lost their jobs over misuse of Flock Safety's camera network. We don't have the internal investigation file, so we're not going to speculate about exactly what they searched or why. But the broader point stands — when you hand every department in the country a searchable, retroactive map of everyone's driving history, you are trusting thousands of individual officers to never look up an ex, a neighbor, a reporter, or a political rival. History says that trust gets broken.
This is the structural problem with ALPR networks that Flock and its police customers rarely want to discuss in public. The company markets these systems as crime-fighting tools, but the audit logs that are supposed to catch abuse only work after the fact, and only if someone bothers to check them. Savannah firing six officers is being framed as accountability working — but it also means six people had access long enough to get caught doing something wrong, in one mid-sized city alone. Multiply that risk by the thousands of agencies running Flock cameras nationwide and the scale of the exposure becomes obvious.
The healthcare half of this video is its own conversation, but the surveillance half is squarely ours. If you want to know how close this kind of tracking infrastructure is to your own block, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on your local department or city council, our take-action page has the tools to start.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of The Greis Report, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.