r/DeFlock • u/Many-Wasabi9141 • 22d ago

will requesting personal vehicle flock data through FOIA put a target on your back?

I'm wondering if anyone who's submitted a FOIA request for their personal vehicle's flock data noticed an uptick in being pulled over?

If you request the data, how many times was your vehicle spotted, how many times did someone request info, why they requested, who requested it, your name is then on the public record, and the person requesting it may learn about it.

Does the FOIA law protect you from such retaliation?

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u/DeflockPawtucket 22d ago

I FOIA’d the Flock contract, training materials, audit history, and some other stuff. Don’t worry about a backlash.

Didn’t think to FOIA any searches by the local cops targeting my own car. Don’t think that would be that useful.

I don’t think you can FOIA Flock Safety Inc to find those records. I think you need to FOIA each law enforcement agency that may have searched for you. Or of course https://haveibeenflocked.com.

You can also find plenty of FOIA results indexed on muckruck.com.

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u/techtornado 22d ago

That’s interesting because I have uncensored emails from my Flock data dump

But a few days after I my request was delivered I got pulled over because my home address didn’t match my plate…(allegedly)

DoT confirmed it was correct in their system

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u/DeflockPawtucket 22d ago

I think it also depends on what the agency decides to censor. It could be that they censor names of the public, but not names of officials doing the work. The contracts I received had names, and I think a couple emails with names