Audit Logs Unmask Plate Lookups

A free website now lets you see if police actively searched your license plate inside Flock Safety’s system.

Story Highlights

The site compiles public Flock Safety audit logs and makes them searchable.
Audit logs record searches run by users, not just camera sightings.
Only agencies that released logs appear in the database, so results are partial.
Reporters say millions of plates appear across hundreds of millions of searches.

What the New Tool Does and Where the Data Comes From

The website, Have I Been Flocked, gathers audit logs that governments released through public records requests. The site says these logs come from the Flock Safety platform and track who ran searches, when, and for what plate or keyword. Audit logs differ from camera hits. They show human or system queries run inside the software, not simple photos of cars on the road. A New York Post report describes the tool as a public search engine for these Flock query records.

The site’s pages explain how people can file their own records requests to expand coverage. It outlines the steps to ask local agencies for audit logs and other useful records like event logs and sharing settings. The project also invites people to submit official responses and link public request pages so others can verify the source. This setup aims to keep the database tied to documents that governments actually released, not rumors or secondhand claims.

What Shows Up When You Search a Plate

When someone searches a license plate on the site, matches come from agencies that chose to release audit logs. The site warns that results are limited to what each agency provided, so a blank result does not prove no one searched that plate. Media reports highlight the scale of the records already compiled. One report cites nearly 4.7 million license plates appearing in about 219 million Flock searches, reflecting rapid growth in plate lookups across jurisdictions.

Several local explainers and advocacy pages say these logs can reveal which agency queried a plate, when, and sometimes the reason code. That level of detail helps the public see how search tools are used day to day. Some reports also describe cases where audit logs flagged misuse, like improper lookups, which then triggered reviews. The audit trail, not raw camera data, is what enables that kind of accountability check.

Why This Matters Across the Political Spectrum

Audit logs address a broader fight over how to oversee license plate readers. The Brennan Center for Justice urges that police use of automated license plate readers be logged in a way that permits auditing and public accountability. Civil liberties groups argue that access and use logs should be public in redacted form to protect ongoing cases while still showing patterns of use. Courts and lawmakers have split on disclosure, which leaves a patchwork of access rules.

NEW WEBSITE LETS DRIVERS CHECK POLICE LICENSE PLATE SEARCHES

Those Flock Safety cameras are going under the microscope these days …. there's a new website called “Have I Been Flocked” … drivers can see if their license plate has been searched by law enforcement. The tool…

— Worldwide News Network (@WorldwideNNX) August 16, 2026

For many Americans, this is about trust and power. People on the right worry about big government and tech vendors tracking daily life. People on the left worry about profiling and unequal impacts. Both sides see how secret systems can be abused. A public, document-based audit trail gives citizens one basic tool: the ability to ask, “Who looked for me, and why?” This site turns that principle into something people can actually use, even if the records are incomplete.