Marathon County · an illustration

One car among 464,012

Cam 04 · one read

What Flock stores

    Attributes as Flock describes them: make, color, type, plate, plate state, roof racks, bumper stickers, damage, direction of travel, time and location. Flock says make, not model. Sources: Why Flock; 6 Myths About License Plate Readers.

    Fictional example

    Vehicle and registrant

    Likely attended · Go Team Red rally · Sat Oct 10

    Portrait of the fictional registrant

    Vehicle

    Camera read

    Pattern from stored reads · Sep 21 – Oct 20

    Arrest record

    DateAgencyChargeDisposition
    None on file

    Flock stores the vehicle and camera-read fields for every car that passes. The name, address and birth date come from a registration lookup, not from Flock.

    Ten cameras · thirty days

    1

    vehicle in view

    0

    searches

    About one search for every 3,500 vehicles.

    Sheriff’s Office Flock transparency portal, read October 21, 2026. The portal counts unique vehicles; each may have been photographed many times. A search is a query, not one vehicle, so the 132 marked tiles are a symbol. 462,899 is 464,012 minus the 132 searches and the 981 hotlist hits in the same thirty days, counting each as a different vehicle. On November 3 the portal showed 431,282 vehicles and 128 searches.

    TimeDay 0 of 30Mon, Sep 21
    +
    IdentityXAK-00000Nora J. Veldhaus
    +
    Storage0 readskept thirty days
    =
    Evidence
    Nothing yet.
    Portrait of the fictional registrant

    VELDHAUS, NORA J.
    2917 NINEBARK RIDGE RD, WESTON
    2019 SUBARU OUTBACK · XAK-00000

    Schematic map. The home, store, roads and cameras are invented, as is the woman.

    WhenSat, Oct 10evening
    WhereCam 11 + 12Expo Road, by the expo hall
    Search—not run yet
    Likely attendees—every owner, marked alike
    Portrait of the fictional registrant

    VELDHAUS, NORA J.
    2917 NINEBARK RIDGE RD, WESTON

      Schematic. The party, rally, venue and cameras are invented, as is Nora.

      Threat model

      Portrait of the fictional registrant

      VELDHAUS, NORA J.
      2917 NINEBARK RIDGE RD, WESTON
      POLITICAL ACTIVIST, TEAM RED

        If it were Nora

        On the record

          In Marathon County

          1 record in view

          There are 464,000 Noras in this picture.

          One card for each vehicle the Sheriff’s Office cameras detected in thirty days. Nora is fictional, but the risks are not.

          Nora

          Her car