No Flockin’ way.
The “Have I Been Flocked” site compiles Flock audit logs and allows drivers to see if their license plate has been run by law enforcement agencies’ Flock camera systems.
If a person’s license plate pops up on the database, it means not only that their license plate was photographed but that an operator on the Flock system searched the database for that license plate using the Flock application or website, the site says.
Included in the audit log is the stated reason someone in law enforcement gave to look up a license plate, according to the site.
The database does not show when or if your vehicle passed one of the Flock Safety cameras.
Those searching Flock databases are not necessarily police officers and showing up on the site does not mean a person was under investigation, the site notes.
The database of “audit logs” is built through FOIA public record requests from 6,586 different agencies across the country, though some information may be outdated or incomplete, according to the site.
“The dataset is incomplete; few governments provide easy access to these logs, and the records we obtain are often redacted,” organizers of the site warn.
Flock is a private, for-profit technology company that operates over 120,000 AI-powered cameras that actively record vehicle data from public spaces and share the data with police departments and local governments.
Those in favor of the camera systems argue they are a valuable tool for law enforcement.
But backlash against the camera system is mounting, with those opposed citing privacy concerns.
One Flock-hating Long Island resident splattered two of the cameras with paint, unplugged them, and ran over one on the weekend of July 4, according to the Southold Police Department.
In another incident last month, a pick-up truck-driving vigilante in California ran over three Flock cameras in Monterey County, according to the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office.
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