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<blockquote data-quote="Obi-Wan" data-source="post: 496678" data-attributes="member: 709"><p>Good to know its all about safety </p><p></p><p>While Flock Safety does not publicly publish a single, live-updating counter of total nationwide searches, public record audits and civil rights lawsuits show that <strong>hundreds of thousands of inquiries are requested every day</strong> across the United States.</p><p>Because Flock operates a decentralized network of over <strong>120,000 AI-powered cameras</strong> across 49 states, a search by an officer in one jurisdiction can automatically ping camera data nationwide. The massive scale of daily inquiries is highlighted by recent public disclosures: [<a href="https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/license-plate-readers-like-those-made-by-flock-safety-have-become-ubiquitous-in-/1021547970642713/" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn-53SwBFT0&t=58" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0904/flock-cameras-privacy-surveillance" target="_blank">3</a>]</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>City-Level Volume:</strong> A civil liberties lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice revealed that law enforcement officials conducted more than <strong>15,000 searches per day</strong> using images and data from just <em>474</em> Flock cameras in San Jose, California. [<a href="https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/opinion-nevada-cant-update-its-way-out-of-a-flock-surveillance-state" target="_blank">1</a>]</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>The "Network Effect" Interrogations:</strong> In Pflugerville, Texas, a public records request revealed that outside police departments queried the town’s localized Flock data <strong>8,900 times per day</strong> over a six-month period. For every 1 search the local police department conducted, outside agencies queried their database 315 times due to the interconnected nature of the platform. [<a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/979869/flock-alpr-ai-surveillance-protest-privacy" target="_blank">1</a>]</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Historical Totals:</strong> The public watchdog project <a href="https://haveibeenflocked.com/" target="_blank">Have I Been Flocked?</a> has compiled public records and freedom of information requests covering more than <strong>242 million individual Flock searches</strong> to date. [<a href="https://haveibeenflocked.com/" target="_blank">1</a>]</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Massive Data Inputs:</strong> The daily inquiry volume acts on a system that automatically captures and processes <strong>20 billion license plate scans per month</strong> (roughly 666 million scans every day). [<a href="https://www.facebook.com/aclu/posts/flocks-cameras-scan-20-billion-license-plates-a-month-and-police-across-the-coun/1538078191688629/" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/change.org/posts/flock-safetys-network-of-more-than-100000-cameras-logs-about-20-billion-license-/1503061055182862/" target="_blank">2</a>]</li> </ul></li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obi-Wan, post: 496678, member: 709"] Good to know its all about safety While Flock Safety does not publicly publish a single, live-updating counter of total nationwide searches, public record audits and civil rights lawsuits show that [B]hundreds of thousands of inquiries are requested every day[/B] across the United States. Because Flock operates a decentralized network of over [B]120,000 AI-powered cameras[/B] across 49 states, a search by an officer in one jurisdiction can automatically ping camera data nationwide. The massive scale of daily inquiries is highlighted by recent public disclosures: [[URL='https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/license-plate-readers-like-those-made-by-flock-safety-have-become-ubiquitous-in-/1021547970642713/']1[/URL], [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn-53SwBFT0&t=58']2[/URL], [URL='https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0904/flock-cameras-privacy-surveillance']3[/URL]] [LIST] [*][LIST] [*][B]City-Level Volume:[/B] A civil liberties lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice revealed that law enforcement officials conducted more than [B]15,000 searches per day[/B] using images and data from just [I]474[/I] Flock cameras in San Jose, California. [[URL='https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/opinion-nevada-cant-update-its-way-out-of-a-flock-surveillance-state']1[/URL]] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][B]The "Network Effect" Interrogations:[/B] In Pflugerville, Texas, a public records request revealed that outside police departments queried the town’s localized Flock data [B]8,900 times per day[/B] over a six-month period. For every 1 search the local police department conducted, outside agencies queried their database 315 times due to the interconnected nature of the platform. [[URL='https://www.theverge.com/tech/979869/flock-alpr-ai-surveillance-protest-privacy']1[/URL]] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][B]Historical Totals:[/B] The public watchdog project [URL='https://haveibeenflocked.com/']Have I Been Flocked?[/URL] has compiled public records and freedom of information requests covering more than [B]242 million individual Flock searches[/B] to date. [[URL='https://haveibeenflocked.com/']1[/URL]] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][B]Massive Data Inputs:[/B] The daily inquiry volume acts on a system that automatically captures and processes [B]20 billion license plate scans per month[/B] (roughly 666 million scans every day). [[URL='https://www.facebook.com/aclu/posts/flocks-cameras-scan-20-billion-license-plates-a-month-and-police-across-the-coun/1538078191688629/']1[/URL], [URL='https://www.facebook.com/change.org/posts/flock-safetys-network-of-more-than-100000-cameras-logs-about-20-billion-license-/1503061055182862/']2[/URL]] [/LIST] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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