A new EFF investigation reveals that over 80 U.S. law enforcement agencies have used Flock Safety’s nationwide license plate reader network to conduct racist searches targeting Romani people. Audit logs show hundreds of queries using slurs like ‘g*psy’ and terms like ‘roma,’ often without any connection to a specific crime. This practice perpetuates harmful stereotypes and amounts to digital profiling, turning a massive surveillance system into a tool for institutionalizing bias. Despite some departments acknowledging the language as inappropriate, others defend it as necessary for their investigations. The report argues that such surveillance technology inherently amplifies discrimination and that oversight policies are failing, concluding that the only effective solution is for communities to terminate their contracts with Flock altogether.