Website lets Nevada drivers check if their plates were queried in Flock Safety database
A new site, HaveIBeenFlocked.com, enables motorists in the Las Vegas area to determine whether their license plates have been searched by Flock Safety’s automated license-plate-reader system.
A public website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com now allows drivers to enter their license-plate numbers and see if the information has been queried in the database of Flock Safety’s automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) cameras. The service compiles audit-log data obtained from transparency portals and Freedom of Information Act requests, then discards the search results after displaying whether a lookup occurred.
Flock Safety’s cameras capture images of passing vehicles and transmit them to the company’s servers, where the data are stored in a database accessible to law-enforcement agencies, private firms, apartment complexes and neighborhood-watch groups. In Clark County, the sheriff’s office reported that the Metropolitan Police Department operates about 180 Flock cameras, supplemented by roughly 130 Motorola units, and that police also have access to more than 300 privately owned cameras.
The website does not indicate whether a vehicle actually passed a camera or what image was recorded; it only reports if a customer of the Flock system has performed a search for that plate number. According to the site’s operators, no license-plate numbers are retained after a user’s query.