How the file is built

Sources

Go Flock Yourself is a working file, not a newsroom. Curated items keep canonical URLs, dates, and a one-line "why it is in the file" so you can cite without rereading the internet. The live wire is Google News RSS for Flock, ALPR, and license-plate readers — citations use the publisher URL, not the Google News wrapper, so a paste unfurls. The X file is a desk selection of posts people are actually quoting — reporters, mayors, the vendor, DeFlock, 404 Media — not a firehose. Company and government releases sit next to critics on purpose.

• The Washington Post

  The 2026 officer-misuse investigation and the follow-on product-change coverage. Their X post is in the file as a short cite.

• Associated Press / CNN / NYT / ABC

  Wire and national scale: agency counts, camera counts, the August guardrail announcement, and municipal cutoffs.

• 404 Media

  Documentary ICE / CBP / DEA side-door access, the abortion-search records, and the search-engine leak of cop queries. Their X posts sit next to the longform.

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

  Protest-surveillance analysis, named wrongful-stop victims, California litigation, and the San Jose warrant demand.

• Institute for Justice

  Error-to-force tally: innocent motorists stopped, detained, or jailed on bad plate reads.

• Georgia Bureau of Investigation

  Primary source on the Albany PD criminal cases — not an advocacy write-up.

• Business Insider / Sacramento Bee

  Roseville alert-error rate (71% of alerts) plus the department's denominator caveat.

• WATE / WBIR / Knoxville News Sentinel

  Knox County rollout, mayor's requested ban, commission review, installation pause.

• Glenn Jacobs / Frank Luntz on X

  Knox County Mayor's prohibition video and the cross-party framing post. Tennessee primary sources, not recaps.

• DeFlock / InvestigateTV / FactPost on X

  The mapping accounts and TV investigators posting cancellations, lookup tools, and misuse tallies as they land.

• Flock Safety on X

  Company primary source for the August 13 guardrails and the Audit Assistance defense. Cite as a claim.

• NPR / StateScoop

  Contract cancellations — 30+ localities by Feb 2026; agencies in 23 states by August.

• Congressional Research Service

  Nonpartisan Fourth Amendment status: no federal appellate holding on ALPR database queries yet.

• DeFlock map / Have I Been Flocked

  Crowdsourced camera map and lookup. Volunteer pins — treat locations as alleged, not a vendor dump.

• CISA

  Motorola/Vigilant LPR advisory — the ALPR stack is not only Flock.

• Google News live wire

  Refreshed from the desk. Items are classified heuristically; open the original before citing as gospel.

If a live-wire headline duplicates a desk item, it is dropped. Paste anything the wire missed into your private file.