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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...

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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’

The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.

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Simon @simon437.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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We’ve officially reached the era where the "neighborhood watch" is just a distributed network of high-res cameras feeding a database. The panopticon didn't arrive with a bang; it arrived as a subscription service for local PD.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

is this good

An Eatonton Police Department (Ga.) employee ran searches with reasons such as HJKNUILH, uiokjk.kuj, GJLHBNMN, hjhbnmg, and iuohjk.
An Atlanta Police Department (Ga.) employee ran searches with asdfga as the reason.
Bay County Sheriff's Office (Fla.) employees ran searches with reasons such as ;'lkjh, /lkjh and lkjhg.
A Brown County Sheriff's Office (Wis.) employee ran searches with reasons such as gyghkkghghjkghjk, ggyjgyujdsrdghdfhjkghjghk, HJHJKLHLKHJK, hjjkjkhjkljk and JHLJKHHJKL.
A Lake County Sheriff's Office (Ohio) employee ran searches with reasons such as asdfg and ghjkl, and a second officer ran a series of searches that started off with "investigation" but then devolved into button mashing, including:
Investigatafy, Investigatafyd, Investigatafydl, Investigatafydlh, investigatafydlhj, investigatafydlhji, investigatafyfdlhji, investigatafyfdlhjigkfgty, investigatafyfdlhjigkfgtyy, investigatafyfdlhjij, investigatafyfdlhjik, investigatafyfdlhjikf, investigatafyfdlhjikfg, investigatafyfdlhjikfgty, investigatafyfdlhjikfgy and investigatafyfdlhjiy.
A Moore Police Department (Okla.) ran searches with reasons such as jhjhjkhj, jhjkhjh, jhjkhjkh, jkhhkjhjk, Jkhjkhj, Jkhjkhjk, Jkhjkhjkh, jkhjkhkjh, jkjkhjkh, kjjkhjk, loiuiou, ukjhjkh and ulkuiou.

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Mind Titan @porgus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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As soon as we ban these camera technologies we're going to need to take a serious look at police and why we keep paying them to do this kind of stuff.

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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 14/09/2026

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how about a mandatory button, complete with attachment-upload function, that says "I have a warrant"

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Red Checkmark in Box Animation

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OpenRegistry @openregistry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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NCIC makes you pick a purpose code from a list. Flock shipped a free-text box. Who signed off?

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siezetheclay.bsky.social @siezetheclay.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Defund the Flocking Police

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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There is ample evidence that law enforcement is neither competent nor ethical (law abiding) enough to be given access to this type of tool.

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Todd Ching @toddching.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Sure would be nice if police could more easily be fired/sued/arrested for blatantly betraying the public trust.

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Lisa 🇨🇦 @peacewind.aero · 14/09/2026

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I feel like a valid case number should be required to access data like this and ever search on that case number should log to that case. Hooray Accountability!

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Jeremy Chao @jmchao.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Did any of the cops go full honesty and enter "checking in on my bitch ex-wife?"

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ABOLISH ICE 🇲🇽 @absurdreality.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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what do you expect of these pigs? the more tools they're given the more power they'll abuse

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Justin Eger @fugitivecourier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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The surveillance state, but in the hands of the biggest jackets in your high school class.

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JaytheOstrich @jaytheostrich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Most often used actual reason:

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A-Aron @aawalk25.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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I wish the media would ask Lowe’s Home improvement why they are working hand in hand with Flock to surveillance their parking lots all over Florida.

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GreedE @greede.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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All Cops Are Bastards

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KarHey @karhey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Law enforcement cannot be trusted. Even with their "policies" that protect no one. WE DO NOT WANT THESE SURVEILLANCE TOOLS AT ALL!!!!!

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Chozang @chozang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Fire every one of them. Now.

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Now is the Time of Monsters @tom-rooney-3.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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No way… an organization with an unbroken record of abusing EVERY SINGLE tool given to them continues their unbroken record? This stops only when immunity is stripped from them & personal accountability for personal abuse of state power is implemented. Humans abuse power. It’s in our nature

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ericmn.bsky.social @ericmn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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I like to remind everyone that Waymos are flock cameras on wheels.

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Seriously:

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Robert Conner @robertconner.com · 14/09/2026

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Sheez. 404 is really cementing itself as invaluable. Thank you for making my donations worth it.

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Maddy🦦 @cowardlylyons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Can't imagine a scarier situation for ex-girlfriends of cops rn tbh

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CMHoskins @cmhoskins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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They. Have. Guns.

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jimrissmiller.bsky.social @jimrissmiller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Any law enforcement officer who abused the data should be appropriately disciplined (terminated). There are legitimate uses for the technology, but abuses should never be tolerated.

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southern spring @southernspring.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Of course they did. A rogue lurks in the heart of every cop.

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Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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The solution to the flock problem of "these are cameras that take public pictures of public places" is to give everybody access to the same tools, and exempt nobody (especially not government officials) from getting searched. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!

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CharleyNobody @charleynobody.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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You think they won’t be able to access a car’s cameras and look at you inside your car soon? Those Tesla cameras will be plenty hackable

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pj-evans.bsky.social @pj-evans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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San Jose, ca, fired a cop for accessing FLOCK data to help another cop track a woman in FLORIDA. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti... (I've seen one story so far about a plate-reader helping them solve a crime.)

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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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(there was a recent accident in our town, car hit an elderly couple, turned around & hit them again. He died at the scene, she died a few days later. Cop at press conference: "unfortunately we no longer have Flock." Dude, they still would be dead.)

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jtadetroit.bsky.social @jtadetroit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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and cops are taken so seriously, that they won’t face consequences for this

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Radical left Scum @imtheshylock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Well since just like the military 90 percent of cops are picked on low iq shit stains

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JG Shrampworth @jgshrampworth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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ACAB

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Nina Lopez @ninalopez06.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Why are thy pushing for it.

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@/ @dreadsnail.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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We will def need more data centers since crime is actually dropping. Real crime left footprints. Now cops are just out there killing time or at best, hating the filling out paperwork part of their jobs, while burning up the AI servers. Farewell water tables!

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mpulskamp.bsky.social @mpulskamp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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But LE is only the foot in the door for that industry. Flock want to be able to sell all of us to every corporation out there, and over and over again.

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