License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People

Other · Electronic Frontier Foundation · November 3, 2025

EFF, November 2025: Flock audit logs show officers at more than 80 agencies typed ethnic terms for Romani people as search reasons, including the Lake County, Illinois Sheriff's Office. These are typed reasons, not a built-in race filter.

The following table compiles terms used by agencies to describe the reasons for searching the Flock Safety ALPR database.

EFF, November 2025: Flock audit logs show officers at more than 80 agencies typed ethnic terms for Romani people as search reasons, including the Lake County, Illinois Sheriff's Office. These are typed reasons, not a built-in race filter.

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