The Panopticon.

Record notes

About the records.

The running figure on this page is an estimate. It multiplies the time since you opened the page by the average rate implied by Flock Safety's public claim of more than 20 billion license plate reads per month across its network (20,000,000,000 / 2,592,000 s = 7,716/s). Flock supplied the rate; we did the arithmetic.

Retail-camera basis: 404 Media reporting on Home Depot and Lowe's camera sharing, plus University of Washington Center for Human Rights reporting that identified Lowe's stores in an agency sharing report.

Offense-type dropdown basis: Flock Safety's December 10, 2025 blog post announcing changes to its required search-reason field.

Reconstructed Penn State-linked search dataset: 130 records spanning November 2025 through spring 2026.

Source-agency accounting: Forest Park OH PD (82); New Castle PA PD (23); Dunwoody GA PD (4); Parkland Community College IL (4); Centerton AR PD (3); Huffman ISD TX PD (3); Pea Ridge AR PD (3); Tonawanda NY (3); Herrin IL PD (2); Adams County WA SO (1); Kyle TX PD (1); Rogers AR PD (1).

The footage

Evidence Videos

Penn State University Police are largely exempt from Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law, so most of their records are beyond public request. They can still search license plates across thousands of law enforcement networks nationwide. These videos show what their internal dashboards look like.

Internal Flock dashboard: vehicle search interfaceWhat officers see when running plate lookups across the Flock network.

Source: Internal Flock Safety dashboard · screen recording

Internal Flock dashboard: network-wide alertsReal-time alert feed showing hits across connected agency cameras.

Source: Internal Flock Safety dashboard · screen recording