Website Lets Users Check Whether a License Plate Was Searched in Flock’s System

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A new website, HaveIBeenFlocked.com, is offering the public a way to check whether a license plate has been searched in Flock’s system.

By News Desk

Using the site’s lookup tool, users can enter a plate number and see whether it appears in searches made through Flock. The site says its results reflect what Flock customers, including police agencies, local communities, schools, and businesses, have searched for, but not the license plates captured by Flock cameras themselves.

“The license plates and search reasons are what someone manually entered into the system,” the website says.

HaveIBeenFlocked describes itself as an independent project supported financially by the Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, a nonprofit that backs watchdog journalism. The project says it ultimately wants to operate as a nonprofit.

According to the site, its database is built from public “audit logs” of searches conducted in Flock’s system. It says the archive contains more than 4.6 million license-plate records tied to about 242 million Flock searches.

The site also says it does not retain information entered into its lookup tool. Its FAQs state that after a search, the entered plate number is discarded and not saved, stored, or logged.