Dunwoody resident Jason Hunyar helped create a free website that lets any driver check whether law enforcement has searched their license plate through Flock Safety's camera network.

The site, HaveIBeenFlocked.com, contains records from more than 241 million Flock searches, according to Newsweek. Users enter a plate number and see whether a Flock customer agency has queried that plate. The site does not show whether a vehicle simply passed a camera, only whether someone actively searched for it.

The tool draws its data from publicly available Flock transparency portals and Freedom of Information Act requests submitted by volunteers, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The site says it does not save the license plate numbers users search and discards results data after each query.

Hunyar's records fight with Dunwoody

Hunyar filed more than 30 public records requests with the City of Dunwoody to obtain audit logs showing who searched Flock data collected by local cameras, InvestigateTV reported in May. The city quoted him more than $500,000 for one month of logs. A year's worth? More than $5 million.

Dunwoody shares its Flock data with more than 1,000 external agencies. Hunyar said limited records he obtained showed more than 11.7 million searches from outside agencies hit Dunwoody's cameras in a single year.

"There's absolutely no way to know it," Hunyar told InvestigateTV in May, months before the website launched, referring to which outside officers search local plate data. "And then, if it is an external agency, we have no way to hold them accountable."

Georgia misuse cases

Multiple Flock misuse cases have surfaced in Georgia this year. On July 17, the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office fired and charged Sgt. Kabiru Salawu with felony violation of oath of office and misdemeanor misuse of license plate data, according to WABE. Three Coweta County Sheriff's Office employees resigned after an internal audit flagged their Flock use, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. InvestigateTV has catalogued more than 70 cases nationally where officers were disciplined, fired or charged for misusing the system.

Georgia is among at least eight states that classify unauthorized use of license plate reader data as a criminal offense.

Flock tightens defaults, narrows audit logs

On Aug. 13, Flock Safety announced it would cut its recommended default data retention period from 30 days to seven days, Newsweek reported. The company also said it would require officers to enter a case code before conducting searches and let agencies block immigration-related queries of their camera data.

But Flock also changed what its audit logs display. By earlier this summer, logs from connected agencies no longer showed the searching officer's name, the license plate queried or the stated search reason, according to InvestigateTV. Flock told InvestigateTV the change came at customer agencies' request, citing concerns that activists used released audit data to identify undercover officers.

Dunwoody spending on Flock

Dunwoody spends about half a million dollars a year on Flock technology and invested $360,000 to build a real-time crime center, according to The Guardian. The City Council voted unanimously April 13 to approve a renegotiated one-year, $15,000 contract for Flock's 911 dispatch software after twice deferring it, the Atlanta Press Collective reported.

As of June 25, Flock operated more than 120,000 cameras across 49 states. HaveIBeenFlocked.com acknowledges its database is incomplete because state laws vary on whether audit logs must be made public. Residents can submit their own public records requests to the site to help fill the gaps.