FHP Immigration-Related Flock Searches By Week

Florida Highway Patrol cited immigration enforcement in more than 250 Flock searches between mid-March and early May. For months before that, the agency had not conducted any immigration-related searches in the automatic license plate reader tool.

Suncoast Searchlight's analysis used a national dataset of Flock lookups obtained by researchers through public records requests. The dataset includes search logs from June 1, 2024 to May 5, 2025.
Chart: Kara Newhouse for Suncoast Searchlight Created with Datawrapper