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Has your car been recorded or license plate searched? ‘Have I Been Flocked’ site lets you check

Nypost · · 349 words · By Shane Galvin
Law Enforcement Technology Civil Disobedience/Vandalism Surveillance and Privacy
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Has your car been recorded or license plate searched?

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Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “In another incident last month, a pick-up truck-driving vigilante in California ran over three Flock cameras in Monterey County, according to the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office.”
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Multiple sources confirm that the Monterey County Sheriff's Office reported a suspect using a truck to intentionally destroy three Flock cameras in Monterey County.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — California's county jails function like county jails throughout the United States: they are used to incarcerate people pre-trial, through a trial and sentencing, and for some sentences of commitment. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_county_jail…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Martin County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated areas of Martin County, Florida, and provides related services throughout the county. It is a full-se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_County_Sheriff's_Office
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Monterey County Sheriff's Office is the county law enforcement agency for Monterey County, California. It provides protection and law enforcement to the non-municipal areas of Monterey County. The…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_County_Sheriff's_Offi…
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Claim 2: “One Flock-hating Long Island resident splattered two of the cameras with paint, unplugged them, and ran over one on the weekend of July 4, according to the Southold Police Department.”
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LiveNOW and other web sources confirm that Southold Police Chief Steve Grattan reported two Flock cameras were vandalized over the July 4th weekend, specifically mentioning paint and unplugged wires.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663. Known as the "land of steady habits" f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Connecticut
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. Combat loss…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Long Island is a densely populated continental island in southeastern New York State, extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It constitutes a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island
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Claim 3: “Included in the audit log is the stated reason someone in law enforcement gave to look up a license plate, according to the site.”
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Mashable specifically reports that according to the website's FAQ, the 'stated reason' for the search is information manually entered by the Flock operator and is shown in the results.
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web search NEUTRAL — additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Useand Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety
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web search NEUTRAL — Flock brings together the tools that organizations rely on every day, helping law enforcement, schools, businesses, and neighborhoods respond faster, investigate more effectively, and work together fr…
https://www.flocksafety.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Flock is the only one-stop-shop public safety platform — we build the hardware, the software, and the network to work seamlessly together. Everything is maintained and supported under one subscription…
https://www.flocksafety.com/industries/law-enforcement
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Claim 4: “The “Have I Been Flocked” site compiles Flock audit logs and allows drivers to see if their license plate has been run by law enforcement agencies’ Flock camera systems.”
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Multiple independent web sources (Mashable and others) confirm that the 'Have I Been Flocked' website allows users to search Flock audit logs to see if their license plate was queried by law enforcement.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Flock of Seagulls are an English new wave band formed in Liverpool in 1979. The group, whose best-known line-up comprised Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds, hit the peak of the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Flock_of_Seagulls
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Flock Group Inc., doing business as Flock Safety, is a privately held American manufacturer and operator of surveillance hardware and software, particularly automated license plate recognition (ALPR),…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kevin Perez (born April 20, 2003), known professionally as Kay Flock, is an American rapper. Hailing from the Bronx, he began his career in 2020 and rose to fame through a variety of singles, most not…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Flock
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Claim 5: “Flock is a private, for-profit technology company that operates over 120,000 AI-powered cameras that actively record vehicle data from public spaces and share the data with police departments and local governments.”
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Multiple sources (The Guardian, web search results) confirm Flock is a for-profit company with approximately 120,000 AI-powered cameras sharing data with police and local governments. Wikipedia confirms it is a privately held manufacturer of ALPR and surveillance hardware.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Flock Group Inc., doing business as Flock Safety, is a privately held American manufacturer and operator of surveillance hardware and software, particularly automated license plate recognition (ALPR),…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Planet Labs PBC (formerly Planet Labs, Inc. and Cosmogia, Inc.), known as "Planet.", is a publicly traded American Earth imaging company based in San Francisco, California. Their goal is to image the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Labs
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Claim 6: “The database of “audit logs” is built through FOIA public record requests from 6,586 different agencies across the country”
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While multiple sources confirm the existence and function of the 'Have I Been Flocked' database, none of the provided evidence mentions the specific number of agencies (6,586) or the use of FOIA requests to compile the data.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On May 2, 2011, the United States conducted Operation Neptune Spear, in which SEAL Team Six shot and killed Osama bin Laden at his "Waziristan Haveli" in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden, who founded a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Operation Metro Surge was an operation by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with the stated purpose of apprehending undocumented immigrant…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Heritage Foundation (or simply Heritage) is an American right-wing think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the…
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