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U.S. District Court, N.D. Cal.

In re Flock Group Inc. Automated License Plate Reader Litigation (Javorsky v. Flock Group, Inc.)

California class action alleging Flock shared plate data with out-of-state and federal agencies.

Docket

No. 3:26-cv-02375

No. 4:26-cv-02382-HSG

S.F. Superior Court (original filing)

Judge
Judge Vince Chhabria
Where it stands
Consolidated May 29, 2026 with Eldridge v. Flock and Dutcher v. Flock.

No next date recorded

Pending

  • No next date is recorded in this file.

Docket timeline

  1. 2026-02-26

    Complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

  2. 2026-03-23

    Reassigned to Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. after removal.

  3. 2026-04-03

    Amended complaint.

  4. 2026-05-08

    Related to the consolidated case; reassigned to Judge Chhabria.

  5. 2026-05-29

    Consolidated into No. 3:26-cv-02375.

as of 2026-09-24

Entries in the record

Feb 26, 2026 (amended Apr 3) · San Francisco, CAverifiedJavorsky v. Flock Group: California class action over plate-data sharing

Filed by named plaintiffs Daniel Javorsky and Anthony Mayor in San Francisco Superior Court, dated February 26, 2026. Removed to federal court as No. 4:26-cv-02382-HSG (N.D. Cal.). Initially before Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler on consent; reassigned March 23, 2026 to Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr.; related to the consolidated case and reassigned to Judge Vince Chhabria on May 8, 2026; consolidated May 29, 2026 with Eldridge v. Flock and Dutcher v. Flock into In re Flock Group Inc. Automated License Plate Reader Litigation, No. 3:26-cv-02375 (N.D. Cal.).

Five causes of action: the California ALPR Privacy Act (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.90.5 et seq.); negligence; invasion of privacy under the California Constitution; intrusion upon seclusion; and the Unfair Competition Law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17200 et seq.). Damages sought: actual damages or not less than $2,500 in liquidated damages, plus punitive damages.

SFPD's database was queried by out-of-state and federal agencies more than 1.6 million times between Aug 2024 and a later cutoff. California ALPR data allegedly reached over 300 out-of-state law enforcement agencies, including 287(g) program participants. Flock's own marketing claims 20+ billion plate reads per month nationwide (Flock's self-description). Mountain View and Los Altos are cited as cities whose anti-sharing configurations Flock allegedly overrode.

How we know: Primary verified: 57-page complaint text-extracted directly (v3.6). Docket number and judge chain corrected and resolved in v3.7.

Full record →checked v3.7

Source chain

  1. 01Complaint PDF via Courthouse Newsprimarylink being reconstructed
  2. 02CourtListener docket 72513400primarydocket 4:26-cv-02382-HSGlink being reconstructed
  3. 03CourtListener docket 72512957primarydocket 3:26-cv-02375link being reconstructed
  4. 04Justialink being reconstructed
  5. 05govinfo.govlink being reconstructed
  6. 06PacerMonitorlink being reconstructed
Feb 2, 2026 · Mountain View, CAverifiedMountain View shuts down its entire Flock network

Police Chief Mike Canfield ordered the city's 30 ALPR cameras switched off effective Feb 2, 2026, after learning Flock, not the department, had enabled statewide and national lookup settings without authorization, despite Mountain View configuring its system to block such sharing. City Council voted 7-0 on Feb 24, 2026 to cancel the contract.

How we know: Confirmed, with a second independent source: the Javorsky complaint corroborates the city's account.

Full record →carried forward

Source chain

  1. 01Mountainview.govprimarylink being reconstructed
  2. 02CBS SFlink being reconstructed
  3. 03Mountain View Voicelink being reconstructed
  4. 04Palo Alto Daily Postlink being reconstructed
  5. 05Javorsky complaintlink being reconstructed