A North Manchester, Indiana, resident who speaks at town council meetings and records police traffic stops had his license plate searched 63 times in Flock Safety’s camera network between December 2024 and the end of 2025, according to HaveIBeenFlocked.com, a database built from public-records audit logs. The searches came from North Manchester police and the Wabash County Sheriff’s Office, and InvestigateTV confirmed dozens of them against logs from out-of-state agencies. On Nov. 4, the town council voted to end its agreement with Flock, which covered three cameras.
The resident has not been charged with a crime, InvestigateTV reported. The reasons typed into the log for his plate included his last name, “PATROL” and “Locate,” and some searches looked back 30 days. HaveIBeenFlocked.com puts the reach of a single search at between 11,235 and 98,000 devices.
The town told Atlanta News First that an alert had been placed on the resident’s vehicle but would not say which officer placed it, citing officer safety. The Wabash County Sheriff’s Office said the searches were meant to protect officers during traffic stops. The police chief has said the resident approached him in a threatening way, and a council member apologized to the chief for not removing the resident from a meeting, the station reported. The resident said the vote shows that asking the public to trust police is no substitute for written policy and oversight.
No Indiana law says who can search a plate
Indiana has no statewide law on license plate readers, InvestigateTV reported, which leaves retention, access and the reason for a search to each agency’s own policy. The most recent bill the Indiana Capital Chronicle described, a 2015 proposal to purge plate data after 30 days unless police had a warrant or an active investigation, died in committee without a vote after prosecutors and police chiefs opposed it…