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Flock's Nationwide Safety Audit: 100 Days Later
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A hundred days ago, Flock's CEO said his company was kicking off a "nationwide safety audit for all our poles," and that he would "share more on this soon." Neither the company nor any highway authority has shared any progress.
Flock now says it got hacked mere weeks before Bishop Fox arrived
10 min read
Flock promised a Bishop Fox report in September. It published a summary saying no customer data was accessed. Three days later, its lawyers said confidential customer data had been taken.
Follow the Fiduciary
15 min read
The official line is that HIDTA is a grant program, not an agency. Reality is more complicated.
CORCA — The Federal Bill to Expand Flock
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Six of the eleven senators set to grill Flock's CEO on September 23 are cosponsoring a bill that would fund more surveillance and put a new ICE-led intelligence center in charge of sharing it.
New Flock Terms: Perhaps You Think You're Being Treated Unfairly?
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Flock updated its terms again. It violated them before the ink was dry.
No User, Only a Subject: Chatrie Tests Meet Plate Readers
15 min read
A draft article by Orin Kerr maps three Chatrie tests. When applied to ALPR, they kill real-time crime centers.
Archive
July 2026
Flock's Bishop Fox engagement: Six months laterThis Deal Is Getting Worse All the Time: Flock's 911 Terms Now Live on Axon's WebsiteCome on in, the side door is open!Cameras don't track people, Flock doesFlock is Literally on FireCosta Mesa Keeps FlockFlock Blames Bad Data While Blowing Past Every GuardrailFlock Would Rather Jail Cops Than Turn Off the CamerasCleveland Makes First Flock Referendum PossibleThe Monster Did It: The Five Flavors of Flock FatalismFlock Ignores Contract, Bypasses Approval for InvoicesUrban Combat Veteran Announced as Flock Forward Keynote Speaker
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June 2026
The Chatrie Decision and ALPRSixteen States and DC File Fourth Circuit Brief in Support of Norfolk's SurveillanceCop Arrested for Flock-Stalking Exposes Another Oversight FailureThe Data-Sharing Shell Game: San Francisco Figured it OutIowa DPS: Compliance Depends on Who's AskingFlock Calls ALPR Information "Wholly Irrelevant" to Lawsuit About Policy on ALPR Information
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May 2026
New Castle, PA put Flock in its only Majority-Minority NeighborhoodNever For General Patrol: Flock's Drone PropositionThornton PD Investigated Itself and Found no WrongdoingWe Have to Treat EveryoneUnder Construction: California Class Action LawsuitsWelcome to Dunwoody's Virtual Human ZooFront-Loading the Determination: A Response to EFF on ALPR Transparency
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April 2026
Pattern of Life: Why a City Canceled FlockThese Are Just FalseFlock Quietly Breaks "No Federal Access" PromiseThe Cost of Being Alive: Flock CEO Langley at TED2026Flock Dodges Dunwoody Question with Demo DefenseThe Dunwoody Drone DealThe More the Logs Change, the More the Oversight Stays the SameWithin 24 HoursFlock Goes Global: How a $7.5 Billion Surveillance Company Found Its International Partner in South Africa's Most Controversial Camera Network
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March 2026
No Permit, No Problem: California Governor Hopeful Chad Bianco's 500+ Unauthorized Surveillance CamerasTrust Me, Bro: Flock's Latest Security Blog, Reviewed"Flock Wing License(s) Included": How Speed Cameras Became Surveillance CamerasThe Platform: Flock Safety Is Running on Promises, Not PolicyWho Is Flock Intelligence?You Will Own Nothing: How Flock Safety Keeps Cities From Their Own Surveillance DataVirgin Islands Looking for Stolen Cars in ArkansasFile, Dismiss, Sue, Repeat: The Case for Dismantling Iowa's Public Information BoardThe Column Disappeared. So Did the Explanation.Lorem Ipsum Is the Most Honest Thing on Flock's Trust CenterFlock's Hot Lists are a Hot MessFlock's FreeForm Free-For-AllThe Bill That Hides the EvidenceConsumer Data Protection: California Plus, Compliance MinusFlock Releases Marketing Video, Leaks CJI and Own AddressNew California Report, Old Flock ShenanigansFlock vs. FOIA: The Suppression ManualIowa's ALPR Bill Would Make Des Moines the License Plate Data Capital of AmericaFlock promises to implement logging feature it claimed existed
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February 2026
Flock's Best Argument: Cops Can't Stop Being Racist Without UsWho Watches the Watchers? Not the ACLU.Twenty-EightThe Northern California Fusion Center: A High School Case StudyAll the Attorney General's Men: As Transparent as a One-Way MirrorEighteen Years of Nightly LineupsThe Deal has been Altered Further: Flock Publishes New TermsLangley Speaks on the Burden of Truth and Minority ReportThe Many Faces of Flock Permits (Part II)FOIA Mode: Results and General AvailabilityRed Team, Red Flags: Flock's Bishop Fox Engagement Creates Compliance Nightmare
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January 2026
Disproportionate by Default: The Reason Behind the Reason FieldPublic Policy vs. Private Sharing: California Rebuilds the National NetworkFBI Circulates Bulletin: Keep Flock Searches Vague, Punish TransparencyFlorida Sheriff Uses Flock as Lie Detector, Asks County to Suppress DiscussionSunlight for the Surveillers: Why I Publish Audit LogsFlock's New Pitch: Surveillance or Serial KillersFlock's Censorship Gambit Fails at Cloudflare (Part V)Two Tales of Real-World Flock AbuseTwo Colorado cities abandon Flock oversightHas Flock Been Hacked? What Their Security Blog Post Doesn't SayThe 250,000+ Camera "City-Wide" Network
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December 2025
Flock and Cyble: Aligned Values (Part IV)Flock Decides Cops Can't Be Trusted with Cop DataFlock Tells Customers to Disable Nationwide Lookup After Public Records Expose Search ActivityFlock 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 PlanningFlock is altering the deal. Pray it does not alter it further.Flock CEO Claims Watching the Watchers is Unfair and One-SidedThe "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 NoticesFlock Records Cops, Sends Recordings to DenmarkFlock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence CriticsACLU and University of Iowa Conduct Case Study in Institutional ContemptFlock Blocks VPNs from Transparency PortalsAMBER Alert: Santa Cruz Logs (Update: Logs Still Missing, Presumed Dead)Secret SearchesVector State: License Plates for Pedestrians
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November 2025
Federal Insecurity: How Flock Lies to the FedsFlock Ships American Surveillance Footage to Offshore ContractorsThe 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 BackdoorToo Much, Too Late: A Digital Dragnet for a Homicide157 Pages of Evidence, 200 Jurisdictions, Zero OversightAll the Chief's Men: How Coralville's Flock Contract Bypassed OversightThe Many Faces of Flock PermitsJohnson County, Iowa, Sheriff Botches $98,900 Tiffin Surveillance DealTransparency PortalsThe Flock Camera Data Does Not Enable an Individual to "Infer"Washington Cities Seek to Prevent APLR Abuse by Ending Transparency
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