Flock + Surveillance Talking Points

Data currently available from neighboring areas

Broome County does not have a public portal. The information and data that are being captured daily from the 100+ cameras in Broome is not available to the public.

Ithaca:

Elmira:

Tompkins County:

Nationwide Data:

Hotlist Hits: number of vehicles that triggered a hotlist alert Hotlist Rates: the percentage of vehicles that triggered a hotlist alert out of the total vehicles captured by cameras

Letters to the FTC

Nov 2025: Senator Wyden wrote a letter to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to address the concerns about Flock, and requesting the FTC to investigate the company.

🗝️Key take aways:

• Flock’s surveillance data can reveal Americans’ movements over time, including trips to doctors and therapists, support group meetings for alcohol or drug addiction, as well as places of worship and protests [paragraph 1]
• Requesting Multi-factor Authentication to verify/secure law enforcement accounts, and secure systems against hacking [paragraph 1, 4-5]
• Concerns about the National Lookup Tool leaving information sensitive to hackers or foreign spies [paragraph 3]
• Foreign spies such as a Russian-language cybercrime forum in which Flock accounts appear to be offered for sale – thanks to Benn Jordan [paragraph 5]
• Users could share their passwords and allowing anyone to login without MFA [paragraph 6]
  • A detective from a DEA task force was reported stating that it was a common practice for other members to use his login credentials to conduct Flock searches

Talking Points

Common Questions + Arguments