80+ agencies ran discriminatory Flock searches targeting Romani people
More than 80 law enforcement agencies used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock network, performing hundreds of searches between June 2024 and October 2025 using terms including racial slurs.
EFF investigations found that more than 80 law enforcement agencies used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety network. Police performed hundreds of such searches between June 2024 and October 2025, using terms like “roma” and racial slurs.
The same body of reporting documented how Flock’s infrastructure was used to track protesters exercising First Amendment rights and to surveil people seeking reproductive healthcare — abuses that critics say are baked into a system of warrantless, dragnet tracking.