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Category: backdoor
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Evansville, Indiana Provides Federal Agencies With Access To Their Flock Surveillance Network
The Courier & Press, on July 22, 2025, published an article about its town’s use of Flock and the data that Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office has been sharing with federal agencies (archive link). Evansville is located in southern Indiana and has a population of about 120,000. Houston Harwood, the journalist at Courier & Press that…
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Oakland and San Francisco Police Get Caught Sharing Flock Data With Feds
In yet another case of law enforcement personnel sharing Flock data with federal agencies, in violation of state laws explicitly prohibiting it, the San Francisco Standard on July 14, 2025, revealed that officers in Oakland and San Francisco had been performing Flock lookups on behalf of federal agencies (archive link), including ICE. This is a…
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Five Virginia Counties Found To Be Sharing Flock Data With Federal Agencies
The Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO published an excellent article, “Fed’s hidden immigration weapon: Virginia’s surveillance network“, on July 3, 2025 (archive link). The article exposes data sharing between five county police departments in Virginia and federal authorities on a variety of cases, including immigration. The journalists’ investigation was based upon earlier data…
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Oregon Law Enforcement Gets Caught Sharing Back Door Access With Feds
On June 16, 2025, 404Media once again broke Flock-related news, this time with the results of an extensive public records request that revealed the existence of the Southern Oregon Analyst Group (archive link). The Southern Oregon Analyst Group is apparently a coalition of members of several different police agencies who are casually sharing data over…
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Florida Highway Patrol Routinely and Openly Uses Flock For Immigration Enforcement
On June 15, 2025, the Orlando Sentinel reported on data showing that Florida’s highway patrol had used Flock Safety’s surveillance network for immigration-related purposes over 250 times (archive link) between March 13 and May 5. The Orlando Sentinel quoted reporting from 404Media, which said that the searches had been done “either at the behest of…
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Southern California Law Enforcement Gets Caught Sharing Flock Data With ICE
On June 13, 2025, CalMatters broke the news that multiple law enforcement agencies in southern California had been ignoring state law and sharing data collected by ALPRs (archive link) with federal agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). CalMatters writes that, “state law enforcement agencies are barred from sharing license plate reader data with out-of-state…
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Multiple Atlanta-area Police Agencies Are Sharing Flock Data With Feds
The Atlanta Community Press Collective reported on June 3, 2025, that it had identified dozens of cases of local Flock data being shared with federal agencies related to immigration enforcement (archive link). This data sharing happened in multiple police agencies in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Their reporting builds on data revealed by an earlier public…
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Over 4,000 Cases Of State and Local Police Doing Flock Favors For Feds
Researchers filed two FOIA requests with the Danville, Illinois police department, and the data they received revealed over 4,000 state and national Flock searches made by local police departments on behalf of federal agencies (archive link). The data was shared with 404Media, who published the results on May 27, 2025. You can view the FOIA…