Automated license plate reader systems like Flock enable law enforcement to track individuals' movements without warrants, creating significant privacy risks. These systems can be misused for personal surveillance, as documented in multiple cases where police officers stalked romantic partners using the technology. The widespread deployment of such surveillance tools raises concerns about government overreach, the erosion of local governance, and the potential for abuse when technology is placed in the hands of unchecked authorities.
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Cops Getting Arrested For Stalking Using Flock
Added:So if you guys don't remember Flock is a surveillance invasive surveillance spying program that's being planted all over uh the United States. There's other countries that are basically taking up the same technology under different companies and installing it where they're at, things like um the UK and whatnot. But here in the United States we have Flock and what it is it's a license plate reader.
And they put it up all over and what they're able to do is these things automatically read the license plates of everybody that drives by them. And so when you drive by multiple Flock cameras, um it's able to track and trace and build a map of where you're going, where you're at, and things like that and and then uh the people who have access to Flock can go in there and uh track you down and see where you're going at all times, at what days, at what times, where you're going, who you're meeting, who's uh you know, all these different types of things. So it's a way to not only surveil you and track where you're driving, but it's also a way to build a profile of your habits um and where you work, where you live, where you go to the store, where your kids' school or at schools are at and and everything like that. Um we've talked about stories where when Texas um instituted the abortion ban here, there was a a woman who lived in Texas who drove out of state to a different state to go and get an abortion and they used Flock the Texas uh government used Flock to track the lady all the way to the other state to see where she was going and then when she got back in the Texas they arrested her for doing uh for having an abortion even though she she outside the state. Um and it just goes to show how dystopian this whole thing is. This isn't I'm not saying that in support of abortion, but I'm talking about how dystopian it is that if you want to go and do something, they can even track you out of state.
And so, the moment that you get get back in, they can grab you.
And so, one of the counties that has Flock says, "You will not speak on Flock tonight." County Commissioner refuses to let residents opposing Flock speak at the meeting.
So, not only are they installing the stuff, this dystopian surveillance system to track you 24/7, but now if you want to go to the local your local county and and complain about it, they're not even going to let you talk.
This is kind of the same thing that we've been talking we've been seeing when it comes to the data center stuff. We've been seeing it when it comes to the water stuff. We've we've seen it when it comes to the environment stuff. We've seen it when it comes to technology. [clears throat] We've seen it for all these things.
You know, I was one of those people for those who have been around my channel, you know, I talk about how, you know, things like presidential elections, Senate Congress elections, governor, all [clears throat] that stuff is pointless.
You know, the more of what I see going on, the more I realize that the even the local stuff is lost at this point. Even the local stuff's gone. Because if you can even find a council that will even listen and side with the people, um we've seen this past week uh that the data centers uh venture capitalists will come in, sue the entire county, and win.
And basically force the council and the people to build a data center in their town even though they said no.
And it just goes to show that even on the local level. I was always a proponent, go local with it, but I'm we're at the point now where it doesn't even seem like your voice when it comes to the the letter local level matters anymore.
It's just gone.
You have no voice. You have no vote. You have no control over anything.
Everything is too far gone at this point. And this just reveals it.
Uh yes, city council putting up his finger telling what the people will do.
It says a county commissioner in North Carolina refused to let dozens of residents speak opposing flock surveillance at a public meeting this week, instead forcing the group to designate one single spokesperson.
"How many people are here for public comment dealing with license plate readers, aka flock?" Michael Garrison, the chairman of the Madison County Board of Commissioners, began uh the public meeting by saying, "Nearly everyone in the audience's hands went up. Probably most everybody, per our county policy, I'm going to respectfully ask that you guys take a minute to converse with each other, designate one person to speak.
We'll move forward with only one person, whoever that happens to be." So, everybody there is there to talk about their own individual concerns about flock.
And this is a time where they're supposed to be able to each have their own voice when it comes to this.
And the county commissioner said, "Nope.
You're not going to speak as individuals. You're going to designate one person, and they're going to speak for everybody."
And it says, "What? No, we all want to speak on this." Someone in the crowd said. Others can be heard trying to object as well.
"You will not speak on flock tonight."
he responds. "One person designated, you can pick that person. If I give everyone 3 minutes to say the same thing, which is opposition to flock, we'd never get done." Well, guess what?
That's your job.
Your job is to listen to the people, no matter how long it takes.
But you don't want to do your job. You want to get your bribery money, and you want to move along with your life.
And he says, "I've spoken." Oh, well, there it is. The king has spoken, everybody.
I'm not debating this. I'm taking I am taking advantage of our policy as it written to streamline this process.
You can either do it or not. Keep in mind, this is the guy that's supposed to be representing the people.
And he's telling the people to shove it.
He says, "We're not going to engage in this back-and-forth conversation." He responds, "We're going to allow one person. Pick a person or not."
Madison County Sheriff's Office has been utilizing Flock's automated license plate readers, which scan and analyze the time and location of cars as they drive by since at least March, according to a Facebook post by the Sheriff's Office. Records compiled by haveibeenflocked.com, based on public records requests, showed that the Sheriff's Office searches Flock's or Flock hundreds of times per month.
The Sheriff's Office claims that they are only using this technology for serious crimes.
Yet, published audit logs tell a different story. A website called Madison for privacy says, "Madison County has searched the nationwide Flock database over 1,200 times over just a 60-day period." In a county over only 20,000 residents.
It's hard to understand that that what could warrant this many searches.
So, the Sheriff's Office says they only use it for serious crimes. Yet, for a county of only 20,000 people, they searched 1,200 times in 2 months.
Serious crimes, right.
Members of the audience and several of the commissioners then argued back and forth. The commissioners said that the citizens constituted a group who all had the same position and therefore can only select one representative to speak for 7 minutes, which the board said was longer than the 3 minutes each person would normally be allowed to speak for. This is just pathetic. I'm not here to argue with you, a commissioner responds. So, you're going to decide to listen to your citizens? That's what you're uh you're not going to listen to your citizens.
That's what you're saying, a woman in the crowd said.
One of the residents suggests that the Board of Commissioners could pass an ordinance about Flock cameras. He is cut off by Garrison who says again that the residents can pick a person to speak or not. Eventually, the residents do select one representative who's allowed to speak for 7 minutes. Garrison's argument is that the Board of Commissioners gives the Sheriff's office a budget and that the Sheriff can spend the money on whatever it wants to. He suggested that the suggested that the board therefore does not have any oversight over what surveillance technology police are buying or what it's using for. Isn't that kind of their job? Even though the Sheriff is supposed to be a representative, a voted-on, elected representative, the fact is is that the county is the one that provides the financing, which means they should have some oversight as to what the financing is being used for.
But, this board this particular board is claiming that they're hands-off. They just give them the money and then they let them do whatever they want to do.
How is that representation? How is that oversight? How is that checks and balances? How is that actually supposed to be doing what they're doing? And again, this is the same guy that's basically restricting what the residents can say in their own city council meeting.
This is just one county.
One.
This is happening everywhere.
Where the council doesn't care what the people say. They're just letting They're just doing what they're being told to do. Again, many of these things has to do with They're getting paid from people outside, just like the main government, just like the Congress and the the state government and all this stuff. They're getting paid from the outside. They're being told what to do even at a county level.
And I'm starting to see a lot more stories, pictures, video, and stuff like that where uh we're seeing people going around in their towns, they find Flock cameras, and they're cutting them down.
They're cutting them They're spray painting the lenses. They're cutting them up with some I've seen some of them go out there with chainsaws, cutting them off. I've seen people pull out entire welders, things, and they're just welding the posts off, and they just fall over whether in the middle of the street or not and just leave them there.
They just walk away.
And all I can do is sit here and just smile.
That's all I can do because this is what's happening now. This is what I talk about when it comes to the world is evolving where because you have no voice, it's going to start coming to a point where people are going to start going out into the public and revolting in certain ways. You're starting to see the beginnings of that.
We've seen it happen in the UK where they started installing those cameras, and people will literally go and knock the camera off one day, the city will go and bring put it back up the next day, and then they'll come and knock it off again basically as a deterrent against what's being done because their voice is gone.
And I think they want this to happen.
They They're They're preparing for this to happen because when there starts to be open revolt, that's when you can start dropping all the other bombs, collapsing society, having people eat and tear at each other as they come together and install the new system over the top.
And in order to do that, you have to piece by piece slowly take away people's ability to even just voice opposition. You can't all do it at once because if you do it all at once, everybody's everything will just start imploding. You have to do it in a timed fashion, step by step, and they're doing just that. We're now at the point where you can't even say anything at a local level, your voice is being restricted.
And if you start doing that, you start taking away city council, you start taking away school boards, which we started seeing the school board stuff a couple years back. You start doing this, it might it might start getting little shaky.
It might start getting a little shaky.
Jim Golden, "Unfortunately, we're paying for that equipment with tax dollar money." Yeah, well, it's the same thing like when uh when you sue like when the cops and stuff start doing stuff uh that's illegal and unconstitutional and everybody sues them for that, you're paying for that, too.
The cop doesn't lose any money, the city doesn't lose any money, they just take it from the taxpayer.
And so again, there's no actual accountability. The accountability is gone.
So, that's always important to understand.
Now, if you think that's bad, how about this?
Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people.
Yeah, this is becoming a much larger problem.
It says, "For months during the summer of 2024, Jamariss Brown What a name. Jamariss Brown, an Or- uh an Orange City, Florida police officer, ran his ex-girlfriend's license plate through the Flock automated license plate reader system look-up database at least 69 times.
He searched for the license plate belonging to her mom at least 24 times and searched for license plate belonging to her dad at least 15 times.
Brown's searches were happening so often and and were so commonplace that even one of his colleagues noticed Brown researching his ex-girlfriend's whereabouts while the law enforcement officers sat in their police cruisers, according to court records.
While they were sitting there, Officer King noticed Jamaris was on the Flock system and a license plate reader image of Brown's ex-girlfriend was on the screen, a police affidavit about Brown's behavior obtained by 404 Media reads.
Flock's automated license plate reader uh document Flock's automated license plate readers document every car that drives past them, creating a broad network of people's movements around the country.
People can then look up license plate to learn where a specific car, and by extension person, have traveled over time.
Brown told King that he believed his ex was lying about her whereabouts. Doesn't matter.
It's her ex or it's his ex. Doesn't matter.
She told Jamaris she was at her house with her mother, but Jamaris knew for a fact that she was not. When questioned by Officer King as to how he knew for a fact that she was lying, Jamaris said he used Flock system and saw her that her vehicle was elsewhere. The affidavit reads. Jamaris then asked Officer King if he wanted to join him on a stakeout to try and see where her vehicle was located.
Don't come into the chat and start panhandling.
>> [laughter] >> Gosh.
Hey, yay, yay.
Now, Brown's case was not a one-off.
Local news reports from around the country repeatedly detailed police using Flock surveillance systems uh to stalk their partners or ex-partners.
The contours of each story are much the same with the police officer in question using their access to the system to repeatedly track a specific person over the course of weeks or months.
Uh the cases highlight the fact that Flock can be used to track the whereabouts of individual people, that police do not get a warrant in order to use the system, and that if they have access to the system, they have the technical ability to look up any license plate that they want for any reason that they want.
Keep in mind, guys, all these pe- all the law enforcement, police and other and detectives and sheriffs deputies and all of them have access to this, and they can look up any car at any time, as much as they want, without a warrant.
They can track you 24/7 without a warrant.
For whatever they want to do. And so, these police are getting caught stalking people using this system for just that.
An April study by civil rights group Institute for Justice found that at least 18 police officers have been caught around the country using Flock to stalk a romantic interest in the last few years. Another database called the ALP R Abuse Library has documented 20 specific cases of stalking or targeting around the country.
The known cases of police stalking are almost certainly a vast underreporting of the overall abuse because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both. And that's why I believe that this number this the abuse of Flock stalking, using this on people is so I think the number is so much larger than what we're being told because when it comes to this, keep in mind and there's going to be a lot of people that don't like this, that are going to disagree. That's fine, but this is the truth of the matter. When you have something like the Back the Blue movement, what that means is no matter what, we're going to defend these people. Cops defend other cops.
That's why when you see a sting where a couple cops go down for doing dirty things, taking bribes, being involved with drugs and stuff like that, it's such a rare thing, even though it's very common. I know I've known a few uh police officers who have said it's actually a lot more common than people realize. All the all the dirty stuff that happens is because even the {quote} {unquote} good cops stay silent whenever they know that the {quote} {unquote} bad cops are doing what they're doing. So, how many cases are happening out there where these cops are using Flock for personal reasons to stalk or target or whatever they're doing that are not being reported because the other cops won't say anything about it.
Because if a cop says something about a another cop they're immediately put on the outcast list.
You're forever designated as a snitch.
And this is definitely something that is going to be underreported because of that very system.
Goes on to say, "Other abuse cases have been discovered using the website haveibeenflocked.com, a website that compiles Flock searches released via public records request and turns them into a searchable database.
Flock has repeatedly tried to get that website taken down as we have previously reported. Imagine that.
The company that abuses people's privacy and has created a dystopian system has a website that allows people to go and check to see if that system is being used against them.
And the company wants to get it taken down because they don't want that information getting out. They don't want the accountability regarding it. So, they have attempted to remove it. The same thing when it comes to those ICE Watch websites where people report where ICE is located in their city on whatever day to let people know that there's a group of ICE people here and a group of ICE people there that they tried to take those websites down, too, saying that those are illegal and doxxing when it's not. It's because they don't want the accountability. They don't want people to know what they're doing. They want to hide in the shadows. And I was always taught, if you're doing things in darkness, if you're doing things in the shadows, who's the one committing the crime?
Mhm.
Pretty interesting.
In Wisconsin, a stalking victim checked her own license plate on haveibeenflocked.com and learned that the city of Milwaukee police officer Jose A- A- Ayala? A- Ayala? I don't know. Had searched her license plate more than 100 times. After reporting this alleged abuse to police, the agency ran its own audit and learned that Alaya had also searched the license plate of a second victim 124 times in a 2-month span last year, according to court records. In another uh alleged abuse case in Idaho, the police chief used Flock to allegedly stalk his wife using the reason as a test in the Flock system. Dude, if you have to stalk your own wife, my word.
A citizens anti-surveillance organizing group called Deflock Joplin found anonymous uh searches by police officer in Joplin, Missouri last year. They found one license a one single license plate that was searched by one specific police officer 395 times in a 10-month span in 2025.
They found that a second plate had been searched 147 times.
Again, these are just what's being reported because they have been caught.
Imagine what the actual number is of what what this is being abused for.
Has anybody gone missing because of this stuff? Have there been murders? Has there been kidnappings? Has there been rapes because of this?
Because it's just free free to use for anybody who has a badge.
Soon after Deflock Joplin shared its findings with the city, the police officer in question was fired.
Should have been imprisoned. During that investigation, it was found that the single Joplin police officer did violate the policy regarding department equipment and systems, the city wrote in a press release.
In Coffee County, Georgia, Officer Chris Rosar was charged with eight crimes including computer evasion or invasion of privacy, prohibited use of captured license plate data, and stalking.
Uh he did follow, track, and surveil the victim throughout multiple locations in Coffee County without the consent of said person.
In Bonner Springs, Kansas, a police officer allegedly used Leonardo brand license plate reader cameras to stalk his ex-wife as part of a horrifying and extensive hacking and spying campaign.
The officer was also found to have bestiality and child sexual abuse material on his devices.
And that's a pretty common theme. We went over that a few months ago where many cops and um ICE um officers uh have been arrested and imprisoned for domestic abuse uh rapes and child pornography. It's a very common thing.
There are more than a dozen other cases from around the country where the story is much of the same. A police officer stalks their partner or an ex for months before ultimately getting caught and fired or arrested. Many of the known cases of police abuse uh were only discovered after the victim reported being stalked or after data crunching by journalists or local government transparency groups. Many of the cases of abuse happened over the course of 9 months. 404 Media is also aware of several instances in which an officer improperly used Flock and was simply warned or made to take leave, which did not rise to the level of being arrested or fired, which again, that's covering it up. We can't get the details of any of that stuff.
Again, this is what happens when we have this dystopian technology at the hands of this. Now, keep in mind, this is just camera uh license plate readers that cops use.
Think of all of the surveillance tech being deployed on the grander scale of governments around the world.
They can make anybody disappear.
They can throw a major defamation uh uh campaign against anybody they want to.
They can put out any information as true about anybody if they want to get people taken away from their jobs and and everything like that.
Because they have this technology to do it.
I mean all the stories of all these people that just magically disappear or get killed because they happen to come across some information that they're not supposed to.
Pretty fascinating.
And it's only getting worse. And when you allow this technology to be in the hands of unchecked law enforcement, and I use the word unchecked specifically because keep in mind there's the whole perspective of police are actually unconstitutional, sheriffs and deputies are actually constitutional because law enforcement is supposed to be separate from a government. It's supposed to be a representative um group that is separate, that's supposed to be a check and balance system. But police are basically hired mercenaries for the city.
And so when you have that, again, there's people that aren't going to like that I say that, but that's the truth of the reality. Again, we're not supposed to be living in illusion. We're supposed to actually give it out.
When you have hired guns, unchecked mercenaries that have the ability to do stuff like this, this is what it gets used for.
And this is just another revealing of how the sin of society is continuing to increase just as scripture said it's going to in these last days.
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