I now know I am OFFICIALLY on some sort of watchlist! Yippee!
The list is supposedly not exhaustive, but I recommend everyone to search your plate to see if you’ve been tracked. I worry for the safety of the women who have been searched more than 50 times by the same user.
The site blocks VPNs, and searching a plate might associate it with your IP address. I advise proceeding with extreme caution. I know it sounds paranoid, but given the state of things in America as of late…
Let’s exchange plates and look up the other person’s plate to confuse the system.
(I don’t have a car and live in the EU)
If you have Proton, Chicago Illinois #2 works.
Holy shit one officer in my town has 309 searches on one plate.
He(?) has the top number of searches in total, and (practically) the only person to search for the top four plates in my town. The rest have like 1-2 searches from other officers in the same or adjacent town.
Wtf is so special about these 4 plates?
We only have two cameras in my town (afaik), and they are on the highway on ramps.
Ex gf or wife or a chick who turned him down. Or a trans woman he is obsessed with.
They really be obsessing over us
Rookie numbers. This is what came from a search of my town:
Presumably their bosses have access to this info… Like…
Sounds like a question for the Mayor and city council.
I contacted the police oversight committee. They report to the Governor and AG.
On the page, USA Today have a section saying if you see a plate that has a lot of searches they want to hear from you. Might be worth letting them know which plates/officer.
They mean if you’re one of the plates being searched for a lot.
If they have the data, they have the ability to compile that data to find the top searched plates… this sounds like a way of getting more interaction.
If they have the database that’s a simple query to execute against it.
Don’t tell me USA today actually reads at the level they write at? Jeez.
He’s divorced and those are his Xwife, her new boyfriend, and his two kids.
Maybe. But rolling the dice, that’s my 7.
I wouldn’t bet against you, that’s for sure.
Seems worthy of contacting the reporter’s mentioned on the site:
What if I’m in these records?
If your plate has been searched frequently or you recognize an officer frequently searching the same plate, we want to hear from you.
Contact reporters Austin Fast and Kenny Jacoby.
Can’t tell. The city redacted all of the plates and usually leaves the reason blank. They have been getting called out for their willful disregard for accountability in other areas too, not that it does anything.
The county redacted 85% of the searches, which probably tracks with them doing legitimate work 20% of the time.
The goombas at the city airport spent the first year on it before suddenly realizing they could hide it. Looks like most of them were probably mostly professional and a couple were stalking.
I am honestly impressed with USA Today for the first time in my life. Flock is fucked if these milquetoast bitches are with us.
Bipartisan issue
What next, Teen Vogue or Buzzfeed?
(No but seriously I love when these places do hard hitting shit out of the blue, although it hasn’t ended well in both cases).
TMZ has been holding DC’s feet to the fire 100X more than any of the legacy media outlets this administration, too
Oh yeah, how could I forget TMZ. It’s so fucking backwards in 2026.
Locally, one of the most insane ones is food blogger LA Taco getting into ICE reporting and interviewing. Obviously when legacy media fails, people still try to step up.
BuzzFeed has (had?) a really random hard hitting journalism arm
I wouldn’t be surprised if this kinda thing happens because they lack oversight since they expect nothing
downloadable db anywhere?
Searching your plate adds it to the list. I bet.
USA Today isn’t exactly top notch news but what would they have to gain from feeding search data to the government? People on both sides of the aisle are pissed right now, hence the searchable database to begin with. Lots of women checking to see if their exes have been stalking them. This wouldn’t be any kind of useful correlation to want the data on.
It’s adds you to the “interested to know if law enforcement has any interest in them USA Today Honeypot 2026” database, which probably marks your file as antifa or something
What do you think that would accomplish, exactly?
Its a data point
That’s why I entered mine and a bunch of other ones in the Lion’s Den parking lot.
Sure. So is your comment.
Now. What do you think anyone would accomplish with that data point? Because USA Today would have possession of the data point of a presumably-legit tag number being entered into this website.
Companies do collect data to sell constantly, but I’m just having a hard time trying to make this one work. Like, not everything is a fucking conspiracy, man. Not everything is a bot. Not everything is an ad.
People get distracted from the real problems by going on and on and on constantly how every single thing is a threat and dangerous.
And yet… those same people will post public comments that can be collected and sold.
Sure, sometimes that happens. But USA Today setting this up and collecting data to sell just doesn’t pass the laugh test.
It’s dumb.
My county seems pretty chill, compared to most of these comments. That being said, I wish all flock cameras a very [redacted].
These are all mostly red areas that are being stalked. Wild.
Completely predictable.
Frederick Co VA top user has their information “redacted.” Must be targeting minors (16-17 yr olds)
Man, searching for words like “crime”, “theft”, or “warrant” really helps paint a picture of how fucking stupid cops are in this country
Cops in my area seem to use “MADGE”, “MADGE1”, “HEHEHE”, “HEHEH”, and more
Georgia–Jesus Christ
My plate hasn’t been searched (it’s not in this list at least), but without outing exactly where I live I’ll just say my county is among the worst in the country for searches. I.e. We’ve done lots of searches.
Dead link?
Works fine for me.
Oh no
It all goes in your profile over at Homeland Security.
