A free website called Have I Been Flocked lets drivers type in a license plate and see whether anyone with access to Flock Safety's camera network has searched for it. Cooke County is not a bystander in that data: the site's compiled logs already contain thousands of searches attributed to the Cooke County Sheriff's Office, and a batch from the Lindsay Police Department.
The site, recently featured by WFAA, works from a simple source: audit logs. Every time an officer or other authorized user runs a plate through Flock's system, the system records who searched, when, and the stated reason. Researchers working with the site have gathered those logs through public records requests and Flock's own transparency portals, then stitched them into one searchable database. As of this week it covers about 4.68 million plates appearing in roughly 242 million searches, drawn from an agency index of more than 6,500 departments.
The Cooke County numbers
The site's agency pages show what those logs contain for the two local departments in its index:
- Cooke County Sheriff's Office — 7,706 searches recorded between March 5, 2025 and July 30, 2026, performed by roughly 16 user accounts. Stated reasons on recent entries include motor vehicle theft, traffic infractions and obstruction cases. About 13 percent of the entries have the searched plate redacted. Single searches routinely fan out across more than 6,500 Flock networks nationwide — a single query from a Cooke County terminal can touch camera systems from coast to coast.
- Lindsay Police Department — 22 searches, all logged on June 11, 2025, tied to an ATM card-skimmer case. Each one was checked against about 5,800 networks.
The Gainesville Police Department does not appear in the site's agency index as of publication — the only Gainesvilles listed are in Florida and Georgia. That does not mean Gainesville PD has never run a plate; it means no released audit log seen by the site attributes searches to it yet.
One important limit on the county numbers: the site can only show searches that landed in audit logs some agency somewhere has released. In practice that skews toward nationwide-scope searches. Purely local lookups that stayed inside CCSO's own network are mostly invisible, so 7,706 is a floor, not a total.
What a result means — and what it doesn't
If your plate comes up, it means someone with Flock access queried it. It does not mean you were stopped, investigated or suspected of anything — and the searcher is not necessarily a police officer. The site is also clear about what it is not: it does not show when or where your car passed one of Flock's estimated 120,000-plus cameras, only records of searches. The data lags months behind, is incomplete, and is often redacted. The site says plate numbers entered into its search box are discarded, not stored.
The tool arrived amid a national run of misuse cases. In Georgia this month, three former Bibb County sheriff's deputies were arrested after an internal audit found they allegedly used Flock plate data for personal purposes, and a Milledgeville police major was charged days later. Flock has responded by shortening its default data-retention period and adding audit requirements.
How to check
Go to haveibeenflocked.com, enter your plate number, and search. You can also browse the Cooke County Sheriff's Office records page directly to see search dates, stated reasons and how many networks each query touched.
The local backdrop
Cooke County's plate-reader network has been a running GvilleTX story. The county paid Flock $83,550 while its camera policy stayed unpublished; Sheriff Ray Sappington later made his case for the cameras, calling a plate hit "a snapshot, not a video"; and our inventory of local police technology found more than $600,000 in surveillance spending beyond Flock. Community mapping volunteers have placed 21 plate-reader locations in Cooke County, which you can see — with the direction each camera was mapped facing — on our live traffic map.
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