{
  "id": 3928432,
  "title": "How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/how-an-atlanta-suburb-ended-up-sharing-flock-data-with-more-than-2",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-28T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Wired",
    "slug": "wired",
    "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/how-an-atlanta-suburb-ended-up-sharing-flock-data-with-more-than-2000-organizations/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Alpharetta, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, with approximately 67,000 residents, is home to multiple Flock Safety cameras that capture license plate data. This data is accessible to over 2,000 police departments, colleges, and government agencies across the United States, including Morehouse College, Florida's Fish and Wildlife Commission, and Medicare fraud investigators in Illinois. In return, Alpharetta receives data from over 1,300 entities, which include prosecutor's offices and police departments like those in Indiana, Michigan, and Texas. Over the past year, the number of entities receiving data from Alpharetta police has increased by 42%, and the number of entities sending data to them has grown by 125%. Alpharetta's data-sharing network has expanded significantly, becoming a prime example of Flock's pervasive surveillance network. The confusion often arises due to Flock's Nationwide Lookup tool, which allows any Flock customer to query any other Flock customer in the country using a license plate, despite the company claiming data sharing is turned off by default for new customers.",
  "summary": "Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}