Category: flock
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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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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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Texas law enforcement uses Flock in national search of woman who had an abortion
This Dallas Morning News article reports on a Texas sheriff using Flock to perform a national search for a woman who had an abortion.