pkaedingHave I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
Besides the obvious privacy concern: at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.
But, give it a year or two, and you can replace this whole website with a black background and 72 point white bold text "YES".
Flock is a private company, right. That's the whole schtick. Like, Flock can retain records indefinitely for example, they may sell those records to the government but they're a private party.
What's your point? To the extent they're a private company you're even less likely to get access to records from Flock ALPR cameras.
> at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.
They're not a public body, that was my point
They de facto are because they only place cameras in public places and on public land by contract with the government in one form or another; be it with a treasonous sheriff or a treasonous state executive and legislature. The public would not be talking about Flock if they had not worked to create a treasonous surveillance state and instead only did things like monitored truck movements in a logistics depot. The private contracts for things like HOA neighborhoods and corporations, e.g., big box store loss prevention and customer data tracking, but those’s are a totally different issue that have nothing to do with the use of public funds and power for mass surveillance.
Just because the records created on behalf of the government are held by a private enterprise doesn't mean they aren't government records.
Right, I agree. My point is that the FOIA laws of many states forbid disclosing the data this web page purports to surface.
You of all people ought to know that your governments of all levels are routinely ignoring laws they find inconvenient.
You have masked secret police grabbing people off the street en masse with impunity, why would states care about pesky laws like FOIA?
You're right that the dataset is incomplete, but it contains searches done by police, not plates read by Flock.
The search logs are public record even when alpr data is not; quite a few come from IL.
I have no doubt that local agencies are screwing up the law, which is very new, but in Illinois "ALPR information" means information gathered by an ALPR or created from the analysis of data generated by an ALPR (everything after the quotation marks is a straight excerpt of the statute), and is confidential.
Do not get me started on small public bodies screwing up FOIA.
at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete
It's not a dataset of license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras. It's a dataset of license plate numbers that have been entered into search tools.
Enter a license plate to see if it's one of the 2,207,426 plates seen in the 27,177,268 Flock searches we know about.