Two Indiana Deputies Arrested for Flock Stalking
The short version: A YouTube creator reports two Indiana deputies were arrested for allegedly abusing Flock ALPR access to stalk someone, exposing the insider-misuse risk we've long warned about.
Our Take
Creepy Farm's video lands on the exact nightmare scenario that privacy advocates keep flagging: it's not hypothetical hackers breaking into Flock's network, it's the badge-carrying insiders who already have the keys. If the reporting holds up, two Indiana deputies allegedly used their access to a system built to "catch bad guys" to track a private citizen's movements for personal reasons. That's not a bug in the system — it's a predictable feature of handing thousands of officers nationwide a searchable log of everyone's daily driving habits with minimal independent auditing.
Flock and local police departments love to pitch these camera networks as narrowly targeted crime-fighting tools, but cases like this are why we keep saying the real danger isn't just government surveillance of the public — it's surveillance of exes, neighbors, political rivals, and anyone an insider decides to look up. Audit logs and department policies only matter if they're actually enforced, and arrests like these only happen when someone gets caught, not necessarily every time someone looks.
Credit to Creepy Farm for putting a spotlight on this. If you want to see how dense this camera network already is near you, check our map, and if you're ready to push back on unchecked ALPR deployment in your town, our take-action page has concrete steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Creepy Farm, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.