On the record
What is documented, and what is only alleged.
This page is a ledger of verified problems: a state official finding, a state attorney general lawsuit, city staff pauses, and public-record logs. Lawsuits that have not been decided are labeled as filed cases, not as wins in court.
It is not a claim that leftover photos live forever. It is not a Hillsborough inventory. It does not tell anyone to touch a camera.
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Official findings and staff actions
SOS Alexi Giannoulias said an audit found Flock let U.S. Customs and Border Protection reach Illinois plate cameras, against Illinois law that bars ALPR sharing for immigration (and abortion-care) investigations. A sample of 12 Illinois agencies showed no proper safeguards. Flock leadership said it had not known about a federal pilot. CEO Garrett Langley said some public statements were inaccurate, that federal-agency users did not have distinct permissions, and that Flock paused all federal pilots.
This is a state official finding plus a company admission, not a court judgment. It does not prove CBP used Illinois data for civil deportation. It does not prove Flock has a current ICE contract.
Illinois SOS release, 25 Aug 2025 · NBC Chicago · AP.
After the SOS audit and Flock's admission, Evanston deactivated its cameras and moved to end the contract early (about 19 cameras). Earlier FOIA showed non-Illinois partners had run immigration-reason searches on networks Evanston shared with.
The logs showed partner agencies searching. That is not the same as "Evanston officers searched for ICE." Flock later challenged the termination. The later court or settlement outcome is not verified on this page.
Evanston RoundTable, 26 Aug 2025.
A detective shared a Flock login with a DEA group. A federal agent ran 24 searches reason-coded "immigration violation," which Illinois law restricts. The department said the officer violated security practice, changed passwords, and tightened MFA and national lookup.
This is a credential-control failure, found after press FOIA. It is not "Flock sold a login."
Unraveled Press · TechCrunch, 3 Nov 2025.
Attorney General Rob Bonta sued El Cajon after the city refused to stop sharing ALPR data with out-of-state agencies, against a 2023 AG bulletin on SB 34 / Civil Code § 1798.90.55. The suit names a long list of partner states, including Florida.
This is a pending writ against the city, not a judgment against Flock, and not a final court win.
California DOJ press release, 3 Oct 2025.
Texas Department of Public Safety treated Flock's in-state work as unlicensed private security for years, issued a cease-and-desist in 2024, and later assessed a $500 first-offender fine (the statutory maximum for that class). A license was later issued through 30 Sep 2026.
This is a licensing finding. It is not a ruling that Flock cameras are illegal in Texas now, and it is not a privacy judgment.
Houston Chronicle via Yahoo (DPS $500 first-offender fine; license later issued through 30 Sep 2026).
Palm Bay, FL · 7 Aug 2026
Staff pause · permits
City Council directed a review. City Manager Matthew Morton said cameras may not have been properly permitted or installed. Morton and Chief Jeff Spears took the system offline and hooded the units. Findings were to return to Council.
This is a preliminary staff pause. "May not" is the city's word. It is not a council vote that the system is illegal, and not a surveillance judgment. Hooding was staff work.
WFTV, 7 Aug 2026 · Space Coast Daily.
These are audit-log and FOIA stories. A typed reason field is not a court finding. Some agencies later said an "ICE" string was a criminal Homeland Security Investigations case.
Logs covering about Jun 2024 to spring 2025 showed more than 4,000 nation or state lookups with reasons such as ICE, ICE+ERO, immigration, or ICE warrant. ICE had no formal Flock contract in that reporting. Local users searched on federal behalf.
404 Media, 27 May 2025.
Data from three police departments showed CBP regularly searching more than 80,000 cameras. At least one department said it did not know it was sharing with CBP. Flock said it paused federal pilots. "80,000" is the searchable count in those logs, not a CBP-owned fleet. A pause is not a permanent ban.
404 Media, 25 Aug 2025.
Colorado Open Records Act logs showed more than 1,400 searches of Denver data with an ICE or immigration reason, mostly by out-of-state departments. Denver later turned national lookup off. The mayor's office said the logs do not show Colorado agencies violating state law.
Do not read this as "Denver PD illegally shared with ICE." Read it as out-of-state users searched Denver cameras using those reason words.
Colorado Newsline, 6 Aug 2025.
EFF reviewed more than 12 million searches across 3,900-plus agencies. Hundreds of lookups used reasons such as protest, No Kings, 50501, ICE protest, or DxE, often with no crime named. Some agencies have policies against First Amendment monitoring. Some other rows were crimes that happened at protests.
This is documented reason text, not a court holding that each search was unconstitutional. This site does not name private activists.
EFF, 20 Nov 2025.
After reporters and researchers used network audits, Flock removed officer name, queried plate, and free-text reason from the network-audit view shown to partner agencies. A spokesperson cited officer safety. Flock said most states do not legally require those fields on partner audits.
This is a transparency reduction. It is not proof that Flock deleted all internal audit trails.
InvestigateTV, 10 Aug 2026.
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Security and false hits
Sens. Wyden and Krishnamoorthi told the FTC that at least 35 Flock customer logins appeared in infostealer data, and that MFA was still optional for some agencies. They asked the FTC to treat missing MFA as unfairness under FTC Act §5. Flock later said MFA became mandatory in early Aug 2026.
No FTC complaint or order was found as of 24 Aug 2026. The stolen logins were from customer devices, not a proven break of Flock's core systems.
Wyden letter PDF · TechCrunch · Flock 13 Aug 2026 guardrails post.
Reputable press has documented plate-misread stops (including a Toledo case) and hotlist error rates in specific cities (Business Insider on Roseville, CA). The Texas Tribune (3 Aug 2026) cited Institute for Justice counts of erroneous-hit cases. Flock's 13 Aug 2026 post claims fewer than 9 human-reported errors per million alerts and says officers must visually confirm.
This page does not claim a nationwide error rate. It does not claim a verified wrong-house raid caused by Flock. No primary for that raid claim was found.
Texas Tribune, 3 Aug 2026 · Business Insider, 3 Aug 2026.