Officer Charged After 717 Unauthorized Flock Camera Searches on Ex-Wife

A Florida police officer has been criminally charged after allegedly using the Flock Safety license-plate camera network to track his estranged ex-wife's vehicle 717 times over nearly two years, on and off duty. The case joins a documented pattern of abuse of the 116,000-camera Flock system, including a Wisconsin official reporting roughly 80 women stalked using the technology. Because Flock's data is privately owned rather than government-held, it escapes FOIA oversight, letting thousands of agencies and employees search movements and physical traits with little accountability—showing how integrated surveillance infrastructure can be turned toward personal control rather than public safety.