'Have I Been Flocked' Website Lets Drivers Find Out if Their Vehicles Have Been Searched in Flock Camera System
The site uses public records and Flock Transparency Portals to show whether a plate appears in law enforcement audit logs.
- A website called HaveIBeenFlocked allows drivers to check if their license plate appears in law enforcement audit logs. As of Aug. 17, the platform has compiled nearly 242 million searches involving more than 4.6 million plates.
- More than 120,000 Flock Safety-operated cameras have been installed across the U.S., prompting privacy concerns. Recently, the company announced new security and privacy safeguards after backlash over potential police abuse of power.
- A Washington Post investigation found at least 50 law enforcement officers were accused of misusing license plate readers. Public records reviewed by 404 Media documented more than 4,000 Flock searches conducted for federal officials or as informal favors.
- Flock Safety now suggests retaining data for seven days instead of the initial 30. The company introduced Evidence Mode for cases requiring more time, though this limit is voluntary and will not affect existing law enforcement contracts.
- The project warns that results can be incomplete, noting "there can be a significant delay—months or even years—between when a search occurs and when it appears on this website." Concerned drivers are advised to file public records requests.
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Have you been Flocked? This website lets you find out
More than 4.6 million license plates appear in the website’s collection of public Flock records. People aren’t exactly thrilled about Flock’s growing surveillance network. Communities are canceling contracts, protesters are taking down cameras in increasingly creative ways, and activists have built a crowdsourced map showing where the devices are hiding in plain sight. Even Flock has announced new privacy …
Have you been Flocked? This free website reveals when your license plate has been searched for on the cop camera database
Head to Have I Been Flocked? to see if you've been looked upYou can read the details and reasons for each searchYour license plate registration is deleted after the search is runThere's been an increasing level of pushback against Flock and its network of 120,000 or so license plate readers across the US in recent months, and if you want to know if your vehicle has been the subject of a search on Flock's system, there's a website just for that.H…
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