Source: dominionpost.com 7/22/26
During a recent information session, representatives of the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department said the county’s 20 Flock Safety license plate reader cameras captured some 572,370 unique license plate images over a 30-day period.
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“If you’re a registered sex offender, you’re in NCIC. So every time a sex offender drives by these cameras, they go off,” Ralston said, explaining more hits are generated by sex offenders than anything else.
By way of example, he showed all the NCIC hits that officers were alerted to between July 1 and July 17.
During that time, 135 hits were sex offenders. Additionally, there were plates linked to 22 active warrants, six protection orders, six stolen plates, two stolen vehicles and one suspected gang/terrorist flagged by the system.
Ralston said that, by and large, hits from sex offenders don’t raise alarm bells unless there’s an active crime or warrant.
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A Police Chief Caught Flock Lying, Then They Killed The $8 Billion Contract (Gadget Review via Yahoo 27 Aug 2026)
The system can generate a heat map of a specific vehicle’s movements over time…which they denied until proved otherwise less than 24 hours later.
The Flock uprising is just the beginning (Salon.com 14 Aug 2026)
I am telling you and others here in the forum have warned you as well, it is more than just tracking license plates, but life events by those who know better but believe they can get away with it. Different entities using surveillance such as this and including this to do things no one would believe but were written about decades ago, long ago last century. You really want to know who and what…then read here in this article. PFRs as citizens need to start thinking about how to protect themselves and their families. Flood the council meetings to voice opinions against these systems, write letters to elected officials locally and nationally.
You may get off of the registry, but you won’t be off of the their master watch list regardless.
The Belated Backlash Against Flock Cameras (Reason.com 31 Aug 2026)
Americans are starting to recognize the dangers of pervasive surveillance by automated license plate readers.
FDOT de-flocks: Automatic license plate reader permits revoked across Florida (First Coast News 31 Aug 2026)
Some local law enforcement agencies have decided to remove ALPR technologies from all roadways within their jurisdiction.
Here’s a new high???
Indiana State Police arrest local sheriff deputy for misusing flock 2,055 times to check on his GF and then is charged with official misconduct. He resigned that day and then told his GF.
This takes insecurity and abuse of power to a whole new level.
This is just another example of the American people getting measured back to them what they are meting out so willingly on others.
We all had a little taste of living as a PFR during the pandemic, when people were told to stay at home, couldn’t visit businesses, Disney closed, among other things. People should have learned from their own brief discomfort and realized that imposing this permanently on others is inhumane and un-American, but they didn’t.
Now they’re getting to experience perpetual surveillance as well. They are waking up to the fact that being continually tracked and watched makes us less free, not more, and reduces us all to subjects serving the state, when it should be the other way around.
This won’t go on forever. There is a limit to God’s patience. He is watching, and you can rest assured He opposes those who exalt themselves over others. It’s only a matter of time before He acts.
Wisconsin Cops Used Flock Over 100 Times To Track a Navy Veteran After He Lawfully Recorded a Traffic Stop (Reason.com 2 Sept 2026)
A federal lawsuit claims the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office used the Flock cameras without a legitimate government purpose and in retaliation against the vet for exercising his First Amendment right.
This morning I saw two Flock cameras within 5 ft of each other at a Lowes and near a CVS here in Maryland ( MD stands for Maryland and not that I’m a doctor). Are people stealing lumber, plants, and whatever from Lowes then knocking over CVS for medications? I was wearing a t shirt, ” You can’t spell awesome without me.” Good thing I wasn’t wearing Flock the cameras and the police state.
A New Bill Reflects the Bipartisan Backlash Against Flock-Enabled Mass Surveillance (Reason.com 3 Sep 2026)
Criticism from recent survey results show that resistance to widespread deployment of automated license plate readers spans the political spectrum.
It’s not just Flock. These cameras, ALPRs may also be in your community (NewsNation 6 Sep 2026)
Then are lawsuits being generated against these systems for what is multitude of alleged reasons as well as noted lobbying efforts by this company (and probably others similar to it) for states, et al to grant grants for these systems to be put into place in addition to people returning these cameras to the owners at the place of operation (aka the cop shop). It is a full blown tech conflict between the powers that be and the people.
Flock worker calls police on InvestigateTV reporter filming public camera installation (Investigate TV via KKTV 9 Sep 2026)
Again, no expectation of privacy while in public even when doing your job…
Map Shows Where They Are Deploying Axon Cameras as Flock Backlash Grows (Gadget Review 9 Sep 2026)
As cities drop Flock Safety over privacy concerns, Axon steps in with fewer cameras but no hard limits on how long plate data is stored
A Deputy Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras and Logged the Reason as “LMAO” (Gadget Review 15 Sep 2026)
As if it was not serious before, it will be very soon. The public needs to be standing up more against this and start to demand access to the data when LE vehicles come across a surveillance camera to know where they are at as much as possible. Access to the entire network from coast to coast is crazy and creates what we have been warned about for ages.
BTW, it looks like San Jose, CA is going to court via the ACLU and EFF stating this surveillance system violates the state constitution.
No Warrant, No Suspicion, No Problem: Flock and Border Cellphone Searches Excluded From 4th Amendment Rules (Reason.com 21 Sep 2026)
Cops keep carving out tech exceptions to the Fourth Amendment—and courts are giving them their blessing.
Gotta love the case from the USCD of CA within the article referenced…sigh.
(Keeping the Flock going here (and, yes, this is dupe entry intentionally to go with the Int’l Travel entry of the same)
So is driving while being a PFR a misdemeanor or a felony?
Click here to check out this petition against flocks
Florida Ordered These Cameras Off State Roads. Some Sheriffs Simply Moved Them to Private Property (Gadget Review 28 Sep 2026)
Polk County re-positioned Flock cameras onto private land after an FDOT permit order, but the devices continue scanning the same state roads
You know who the sheriff of Polk County FLA is don’t you? Of course you do! We’ll just say their initials…GJ.
To me, this begs the question: Are the private property owners getting paid (er, I mean, compensated where paid is such a dirty word and would require contractual oversight by the county and its people) to use their property for this gov’t op?
They should if they’re not and the people should be demanding fiscal accountability for this action since the county paid for this system with monies from the public and database accountability too regardless of physical location, but are there ulterior motives? So many questions here for the sheriff and the people since the property owners could be trying to curry favor, e.g., bribe, w/the sheriff by providing influence of property usage for surveillance purposes.
School districts are putting Flock cameras in their parking lots now with ALPRs, but some have received blowback from parents about it (and removed them afterward)…their children would never do harm, ever, because they are good boys and girls and would NEVER do anything wrong and neither would the parents or teachers/staff (cough).
Good, make that the reason for getting rid of them and not having any reasons to keep them which will the forum would recognize as Bull Schmitt.
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional (404 Media 2 Oct 2026)
Based on a CA license plate in OK, she gets pulled over and the rest is legal history…court opinion link in first paragraph…from an OK judge at that.
Whoa! A change in dynamics in public privacy…
Your Right to Privacy Doesn’t Disappear When You’re in Public (Reason.com 30 Sep 2026)
Defenders of Flock-style surveillance systems argue that people “have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public.” They’re wrong.
This is about surveillance and NOT guns (so let’s not go there). Also, the USG has admitted there is a registry with involuntary participation of those who are on it through this topic. Should they not be include in the anti-registration movement like the others who are subjected to registries? I’d think so.
A Visit to a Gun Store Shouldn’t Put You on a Government List (Reason.com 5 Oct 2026)
Gun registry bans might not be enough to protect gun owners from lists built from license-plate data.
I posted about this above on Oct 3, but here is Reason’s take on it below.
Then read the rest of the page for the interesting sex related news from across the country (tax on porn in UT and AL elected official busted in FLA in a sting)…smh
Judge Says Warrantless Flock Search Violated Driver’s Fourth Amendment Rights (Reason.com 7 Oct 2026)
The automated license plate reader system is “a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance,” says a federal judge.
Great written story and half hour video story he posts about the system and the national sharing of video data…people need to rise up and push back.
YouTuber Builds System That Mimics Flock to Spy on Cops; Then the Cops Came Knocking (Gadget Review via Yahoo 8 Oct 2026)