pseudalopexNov 21

How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/how-cops-are-using-flock-safetys-alpr-network-surveil-protesters-and-activists

How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists

Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national network of surveillance data in connection with protest activity. In some cases, law enforcement specifically targeted known activist groups, demonstrating how mass surveillance technology increasingly threatens our freedom to demonstrate.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Show threadowlninjaNov 21

I recently contributed to https://deflock.me/

We had a local story where the gist was the police said they searched ALPR for the welfare of a young woman, but it was actually more focused on a possible abortion. [1] "Unrelated" this same Sheriff was later charged with sexual harassment, perjury, and retaliation against a witness [2]. These are the types that are able to easily track you if they wanted to.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas...

[2] https://www.fox4news.com/news/johnson-county-sheriff-arreste...

DeFlock

Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

Show threadbarbazooNov 21

Checked out the map, there is one near me on a parking lot with this OSM data

> camera:type fixed

> direction 340

> man_made surveillance

> surveillance:type ALPR

Which results in "Operated by: Unknown, Made by: Unknown". What am I supposed to do with that info I wonder. How would I find out if it's actually Flock or if law enforcement would actually have access to this particular camera.

Show threadowlninja

In my case the city had to publish their agreement with Flock and I was able to find the city council presentation showing exactly where they put the cameras, and many selling points of how great Flock is. In fact, someone else in my town had already marked them.

Obviously, this website does nothing for us, just glance up at any egress or ingress to where you live (in the US) and note you've been tracked. Or feel free to update the node with better information if you have it.

Nov 21 at 6:14pmWeb
Show threadtptacekNov 21
Some cities just publish these locations, and in many (most?) jurisdictions you can just FOIA the camera placements.