A new website, Have I Been Flocked, is giving Georgia drivers a way to see whether law enforcement has searched their license plate through Flock Safety’s camera network — and it’s the work of a Georgia resident who says his own concerns about the technology started close to home.
Jason Hunyar of Dunwoody built the tool, “Have I Been Flocked,” after filing open records requests in his own community and turning up what he called misuse of the system. The site pulls together publicly released Flock audit logs from multiple agencies and lets anyone enter a plate number to see what searches, if any, have been logged against it.
“If your city is using Flock, you can search ‘Have I Been Flocked,’ search by these agencies and see what searches are being done,” Hunyar said, according to reporting from KARE 11.
The catch: the database is only as complete as the records that have been requested and released. Hunyar said gaps are expected, and he’s actively asking residents to help close them by filing their own open records requests for Flock audit logs with local police and sheriff’s departments and submitting what they get back.
“It’s the people’s information,” Hunyar said. “It’s our open records.”
Why the scrutiny now
The launch comes amid a string of Flock-related controversies in Georgia.
Flock’s automated license plate readers are used by police departments across the country, including many in Georgia, to support criminal investigations by logging vehicle movement. But the recent arrests have sharpened public concern over who has access to that data and how tightly it’s actually monitored.
Hunyar said his own alarm bells started ringing after he learned a Flock camera near his home had been hacked and was streaming live footage online. “I can’t convey how unsettling it was to know that these cameras were just being broadcast live,” he said.
In response to the mounting scrutiny, Flock announced new privacy and accountability measures this week, including shortening how long captured data is retained — from 30 days down to seven.
What Georgia drivers can do
For residents who want to check their own plate, or who want to see which local agencies in Georgia are using Flock and how often, the “Have I Been Flocked” site is a starting point: haveibeenflocked.com — with the caveat that any given agency may simply not be in the database yet unless someone has requested its records.
Given the open-records angle of this story, it’s a reminder that Georgia’s Open Records Act gives any resident the ability to request these audit logs directly from their local police department or sheriff’s office — no special standing required.
