The Shaker Heights Police Department has changed its policy regarding Flock license plate readers in the city after data revealed that numerous outside agencies were using the system for immigration-related searches.
News 5 recently obtained public records chronicling all Shaker’s license plate reader data requests from Dec. 20, 2025, through the end of April, 2026.
The data sets show that Shaker Heights data was accessed more than 700,000 times, but Shaker Police accessed it only 1,016 times. The majority, 693,573 searches, were done by other law enforcement agencies in Ohio and across the country…