Has your vehicle been searched by Flock cameras?
Here’s how to check...
A website is allowing drivers to see if Flock surveillance cameras have searched for their vehicle. HaveIBeenFlocked allows users to type their license plate number into a search bar to run through a series of “audit logs” within the Flock system, according to the website.
The data from the cameras is made available through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Those sources are made publicly available. The results do not show if a vehicle passed by any of the Flock cameras, or what the devices may have returned, but rather what searches of a license plate were performed by agencies that use Flock cameras.
HaveIBeenFlocked also tracks reasons for Flock searches, still based on public records. The most common reason appeared to be related to drugs, closely followed by motor vehicle theft. According to the website, license plate numbers entered in are not saved.
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On his days off, Andrew Lumish, of Land O' Lakes, Florida, isn't relaxing - he's in a cemetery, scrubbing decades of grime off headstones. In 2015, while taking photos at a historic cemetery in Tampa, he noticed how many veteran graves were so covered in mold and mildew that the names were unreadable. He decided to do something about it.
His work is both a tribute to the fallen and a personal mission. He was deeply affected by the suicide of a friend and employee, an Air Force veteran with PTSD, and now cleans in his honor. "They paid the ultimate sacrifice to our country," he says, "and to see that they faded away was something I didn't find acceptable".
He uses careful methods, avoiding harsh chemicals like bleach that can damage old stone. He often shares the stories of the people he uncovers, like a Civil War veteran wounded at Shiloh. "We uncover heroes," he says. In his own words: "I do feel pride. But it's not necessarily for me. It's because I'm able to tell a story about their lives".
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Local men sitting on the porch of a rural wooden country store covered in vintage tobacco and beverage advertisements, with the store owner's brother standing in the doorway. The original was, of course, in B&W, but I couldn't help myself. It's too rich in details - I had to colorize it...
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A lucky-to-be-alive Marine pilot covered in blood miraculously walked away relatively unscathed from a fiery fighter jet crash in Washington state and casually said into a phone “Hey, buddy, I just crashed,” newly released video shows.
The battered and bloodied pilot, assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in Miramar, Ca., is seen on the phone to 911 when he approaches responding deputies on the side of a road near the crash site on June 13, in the footage released by the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office. “That’s an F-18,” the pilot tells the deputies. “Well, that was an F-18.”
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Find one for yourself by clicking on the picture or here:
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Back in 1940, before the US got involved in the war, America was becoming a battleground of ideas as European fascism gained supporters in this country. Activists were working to deepen the country’s divisions of race, religion, labor, and wealth.
The Nazi government of Germany saw these national disagreements as democracy’s fatal weakness. Adolph Hitler believed America was perpetually on the brink of civil war because immigrants had brought the ancient feuds and prejudices of the old world to their new home. As the Nazis achieved more victories, they expected to see a spontaneous movement in the U.S. for cooperation with Germany. They didn’t expect Americans would support Naziism, but many would see it as acting in their own interests.
Meanwhile, Hitler was counting on demagogues to deepen the country’s divisions and weaken its defenses. He had so much faith in these activists that he thought he’d never have to invade the U.S.
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There is a river in north Florida so clear that from above, your kayak looks like it is floating on air. The Ichetucknee rises from a cluster of springs near Fort White, pushing out millions of gallons of cool, filtered water every single day at a steady 72 degrees, no matter the season.
For generations, this spring fed run has been a place of quiet pilgrimage. Families float its gentle current on lazy summer afternoons, drifting past waving eelgrass, turtles sunning on logs, and herons stalking the shallows beneath a canopy of ancient oaks and cypress. In 1972 the state stepped in to protect it, and much of the river remains as wild and pristine as it was a century ago.
Places like this are the real Florida, the one that existed long before the highways and the crowds. Every drop of that water fell as rain, then spent years traveling slowly through the limestone underground before rising back into the light.
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There are no less than ten car washes and four storages places in that same radius. The storage places I get, because so many people move here with too much shit, they're down-sizing to smaller houses and they can't bring themselves to let go of anything. My own brother has had a storage unit up in Jersey for nearly 20 years. Can't tell him shit - he thinks of it as additional rent on his apartment.
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