From Newsgroup: alt.privacy

Police tech that was billed as a crime-fighting breakthrough is instead doubling as a covert tracking tool for some of the very people sworn to
use it responsibly, the Washington Post reports. The investigation
centers on Georgia resident Marci Bakely, who says her ex-boyfriend,
small-town police chief Michael Steffman, secretly tracked her movements
using Flock Safety's automated license-plate reader network. Audit logs obtained via the site Have I Been Flocked show Steffman ran searches on Bakely's and her daughter's plates roughly 600 times over about a year;
he was later arrested on stalking and related charges and died by
suicide before trial.

Reporters Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan, and Aaron Schaffer found that
been accused of misusing plate readersrCo46 involving FlockrCoto monitor romantic partners, exes, or women they wanted to meet. Flock says abuse
is rare, offers audit tools, and argues it's up to departments to
enforce rules. Privacy advocates counter that weak oversight and
optional safeguards make misuse all but guaranteed. For the full data
and more victim accounts, read the full story.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/02/how-police-officers- used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes/

https://www.newser.com/story/393967/investigation-cops-abusing-camera-net work-for-stalking.html
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