We Checked If Flock Tracked Us—And Found a Bigger Problem

Our Take

Credit to It's all Grady for doing what most of us only talk about: actually trying to find out whether Flock cameras tagged a specific person's travel, then asking who looked at that record and why. The fact that a motivated citizen with a camera and a public records request can hit a dead end on that second question is the real headline. Flock's pitch has always been that audit logs and agency accountability keep the system in check — but accountability only means something if the public can actually see it.

This is the pattern we keep running into at DeFlock USA: the cameras themselves are easy to find once you know where to look, but the back end — who queried your plate, which agency, for what stated reason, and whether it was ever reviewed — is treated like a trade secret. That's backwards. A network that can reconstruct anyone's movements across a city shouldn't get to hide behind vague 'law enforcement sensitive' language when someone asks a basic question about their own data.

If you want to see how dense this surveillance net is in your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back on your city council or police department for real audit transparency, our take-action page has templates to get you started.