Crowd-Sourced Lookup Reveals When Your Plate Was Searched by Flock

Have I Been Flocked? lets people enter a license plate to see if it appears in publicly released Flock audit logs. As of Aug. 17, it logged about 242 million searches for over 4.6 million plates, showing when the search occurred, the agency, and the stated reason, though data can be incomplete or redacted. A match means a lookup happened, not that you were investigated, and logs can be delayed or incomplete; operator names are often partial. The project relies on public records requests and aims to increase transparency about license-plate reader use amid privacy concerns highlighted by outlets like The Washington Post and 404 Media.