Study: Police Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Ex-Partners

Is this an unaccountable surveillance state or a transparent tool with built-in accountability?

Published JUN 12

Study: Police Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Ex-Partners

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Above: A Flock Safety camera in Troy, NY, on March 16. Image credit: Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union/Getty Images

The Spin

Establishment-critical narrative

Police misconduct is just the tip of the Flock iceberg, but its high-resolution, AI-assisted technology is why these criminal cops were able to stalk their victims so easily. With over 80,000 cameras across the U.S., this company is being used to create a national surveillance state — one that allows the government to collect every detail of vehicles and where they're driven. Flock is helping create Big Brother in the name of public safety.

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Pro-establishment narrative

Misuse of Flock's system is real but rare across 6,000-plus agencies, and when it happens, the built-in audit logs are exactly what expose it and hold bad actors accountable. The surveillance state panic also ignores that every search is logged, tied to a user and fully reviewable, making abuse harder to hide than in any prior law enforcement system. Flock always prioritized accountability, which is why it engineered it directly into the platform.

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