"..."statewide lookup” had been turned on for all the city’s cameras since the program began 17 months ago, giving agencies across California access to Mountain View’s data.
While national lookup was enabled, federal agencies including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, and the U.S. Office of Inspector General conducted searches that included Mountain View’s camera.
Around the same time that the Mountain View Police Department became aware of the national lookup breach, it learned that a “statewide lookup” setting was active for all of its Flock cameras... the statewide access... spanned from when the first Flock camera was installed in 2024 until the police department turned off the setting in early January 2026. This meant that any California law enforcement agency that opted into statewide lookup could search the city’s ALPR data"
