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Savannah police fired officer Amber Harpe in August after an investigation found she let her husband, an ICE agent, use her Flock license-plate-camera account. Local reporting counts nearly 1,000 searches across six states, mostly on Hispanic-owned vehicles.

Harpe argued firing was excessive because her husband is a federal officer. The thread's reply: that's exactly the problem.

Engadget reports there are now over 100,000 Flock cameras in the US, running modified Android, feeding a searchable network where a Texas officer can query Massachusetts footage and ICE rides along through local police. Searcher Benn Jordan found 70-plus cameras streaming live, password-free, in December 2025.

Then an HN commenter who co-led the campaign that removed Flock from Eugene and Springfield, Oregon and helped draft state ALPR law said his team decompiled a device: the object-detection categories included 'cat,' 'dog,' 'person,' 'bicycle' — confirming from the binary what marketing implies.