09/26/2026
An N.C. House candidate — a family-law attorney — told a public forum: "I have literally caught people cheating on their spouses by accessing this data."
She meant it as a warning about how exposed we all are. She's right about that.
Here's the question it raises: North Carolina law says police license-plate data is confidential and reserved for law enforcement. A divorce lawyer isn't law enforcement. So where did the data come from — and can a private attorney legally get it at all?
We're not claiming she broke the law. We don't know where she got it, and that's exactly the point. Either it came from a police system it was never supposed to leave, or it came from the private surveillance market — where anyone with a reason can assemble a map of where your car has been.
In a custody case, that map is an argument about who's the fitter parent. In a child-support case, it's an argument about how you spend your money. It was sold to catch criminals. It's being used in divorce court.
Read the full breakdown: deflockilm.org/flock-data-divorce-court-nc
