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Drew Harwell@drewharwell · Aug 3, 2026

A police chief in Georgia used Flock's cameras to track his ex-girlfriend and her teen daughter nearly 600 times.…

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An investigation found at least 50 police officers misusing Flock's network of 120,000 license-plate cameras to stalk ex-partners and track intimate details of their lives, including one Georgia police chief who tracked his ex-girlfriend nearly 600 times before his arrest and suicide. Flock's leadership downplayed the abuse as inevitable human error and an infinitesimally small problem, despite the cameras capturing 20 billion scans monthly and enabling surveillance violations ranging from monitoring abortion access to tracking relationship activities.

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    A police chief in Georgia used Flock's cameras to track his ex-girlfriend and her teen daughter nearly 600 times. “Don’t worry I’m not tracking you or some weird stalker shit," he texted her. After his arrest, he committed suicide. He's one of 50 cops we found misusing Flock: 🧵

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    Flock's 120,000 cameras now record 20 billion license-plate scans a month, giving cops a once-unimaginable surveillance power. How some cops have used it: to check whether an ex got an abortion, or to sneak up on her while she was with another man wapo.st/3RoU0Vu

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    Flock CEO @glangley said they work to prevent misuse but that “humans make bad decisions" and they don't want to "police the police." @davidu, partner at Flock investor @a16z, told me cases are a "nonissue" and “an infinitesimally small number” relative to total cops nationwide

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    @glangley @davidu @a16z I spent some time with Marci and drove around looking at the cameras that had silently monitored her life.