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June 2026

Flock Calls ALPR Information "Wholly Irrelevant" to Lawsuit About Policy on ALPR Information

May 2026

New Castle, PA put Flock in its only Majority-Minority Neighborhood

Never For General Patrol: Flock's Drone Proposition

Thornton PD Investigated Itself and Found no Wrongdoing

We Have to Treat Everyone

Under Construction: California Class Action Lawsuits

Welcome to Dunwoody's Virtual Human Zoo

Front-Loading the Determination: A Response to EFF on ALPR Transparency

April 2026

Pattern of Life: Why a City Canceled Flock

These Are Just False

Flock Quietly Breaks "No Federal Access" Promise

The Cost of Being Alive: Flock CEO Langley at TED2026

Flock Dodges Dunwoody Question with Demo Defense

The Dunwoody Drone Deal

The More the Logs Change, the More the Oversight Stays the Same

Within 24 Hours

Flock Goes Global: How a $7.5 Billion Surveillance Company Found Its International Partner in South Africa's Most Controversial Camera Network

March 2026

No Permit, No Problem: California Governor Hopeful Chad Bianco's 500+ Unauthorized Surveillance Cameras

Trust Me, Bro: Flock's Latest Security Blog, Reviewed

"Flock Wing License(s) Included": How Speed Cameras Became Surveillance Cameras

The Platform: Flock Safety Is Running on Promises, Not Policy

Who Is Flock Intelligence?

You Will Own Nothing: How Flock Safety Keeps Cities From Their Own Surveillance Data

Virgin Islands Looking for Stolen Cars in Arkansas

File, Dismiss, Sue, Repeat: The Case for Dismantling Iowa's Public Information Board

The Column Disappeared. So Did the Explanation.

Lorem Ipsum Is the Most Honest Thing on Flock's Trust Center

Flock's Hot Lists are a Hot Mess

Flock's FreeForm Free-For-All

The Bill That Hides the Evidence

Consumer Data Protection: California Plus, Compliance Minus

Flock Releases Marketing Video, Leaks CJI and Own Address

New California Report, Old Flock Shenanigans

Flock vs. FOIA: The Suppression Manual

Iowa's ALPR Bill Would Make Des Moines the License Plate Data Capital of America

Flock promises to implement logging feature it claimed existed

February 2026

Flock's Best Argument: Cops Can't Stop Being Racist Without Us

The Northern California Fusion Center: A High School Case Study

Who Watches the Watchers? Not the ACLU.

Twenty-Eight

All the Attorney General's Men: As Transparent as a One-Way Mirror

Eighteen Years of Nightly Lineups

The Deal has been Altered Further: Flock Publishes New Terms

Langley Speaks on the Burden of Truth and Minority Report

The Many Faces of Flock Permits (Part II)

FOIA Mode: Results and General Availability

Red Team, Red Flags: Flock's Bishop Fox Engagement Creates Compliance Nightmare

January 2026

Disproportionate by Default: The Reason Behind the Reason Field

Public Policy vs. Private Sharing: California Rebuilds the National Network

FBI Circulates Bulletin: Keep Flock Searches Vague, Punish Transparency

Florida Sheriff Uses Flock as Lie Detector, Asks County to Suppress Discussion

Sunlight for the Surveillers: Why I Publish Audit Logs

Flock's New Pitch: Surveillance or Serial Killers

Flock's Censorship Gambit Fails at Cloudflare (Part V)

Two Tales of Real-World Flock Abuse

Two Colorado cities abandon Flock oversight

Has Flock Been Hacked? What Their Security Blog Post Doesn't Say

The 250,000+ Camera "City-Wide" Network

December 2025

Flock and Cyble: Aligned Values (Part IV)

Flock Tells Customers to Disable Nationwide Lookup After Public Records Expose Search Activity

Flock Decides Cops Can't Be Trusted with Cop Data

Flock and Cyble Inc. Pile on the Allegations with no Evidence in Sight (Part III)

3,466 Searches, Zero Hits: How Flock Failed an Amber Alert

"Official Police Business Only" Now Covers City Planning

Flock is altering the deal. Pray it does not alter it further.

Flock CEO Claims Watching the Watchers is Unfair and One-Sided

The "Public Roads" Myth: Why Mass Surveillance Violates the Fourth Amendment

"License Plate Reader Company Flock Said It Does Not Use Dark Web Data. My Analysis of Their Code Tells a Different Story"

Flock and Cyble Inc. Continue to File False Notices

Flock Records Cops, Sends Recordings to Denmark

Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics

ACLU and University of Iowa Conduct Case Study in Institutional Contempt

Flock Blocks VPNs from Transparency Portals

AMBER Alert: Santa Cruz Logs (Update: Logs Still Missing, Presumed Dead)

Secret Searches

Vector State: License Plates for Pedestrians

November 2025

Federal Insecurity: How Flock Lies to the Feds

Flock Ships American Surveillance Footage to Offshore Contractors

The Memory Hole: Flock's Three-Step Plan to Kill Transparency

"The Burden of Compliance Shouldn't Stand in the Way of Public Safety"

The Data-Sharing Shell Game: Flock, RISS, and the Federal Surveillance Backdoor

Too Much, Too Late: A Digital Dragnet for a Homicide

157 Pages of Evidence, 200 Jurisdictions, Zero Oversight

All the Chief's Men: How Coralville's Flock Contract Bypassed Oversight

The Many Faces of Flock Permits

Johnson County, Iowa, Sheriff Botches $98,900 Tiffin Surveillance Deal

Transparency Portals

The Flock Camera Data Does Not Enable an Individual to "Infer"

Washington Cities Seek to Prevent APLR Abuse by Ending Transparency