Lawsuit, Waukesha County man gets flocked by Sheriff's Department. Why? Did he commit a crime? Was he a kidnapper? Was he engaged in illicit drug trafficking? Nope, he filed a complaint against the deputy. Attorney Nate Code said, "This was someone who said that I don't like the way I was treated by an officer, and then they decided that they were going to look into you." The Sussex man says, "What began with him recording a traffic stop on his cell phone ended with Sheriff's deputies repeatedly searching his license plate in a surveillance database." By the way, if you want to know if you've been flocked, there's a website that is called haveibeenflocked.com. Haveibeenflocked.com, and it's free. It's free to use. All you have to do is put your license plate in there, and from what I understand, it shows if you have been if any law enforcement agency has issued some kind of request to scrape your data, basically is what it is. After he filed a citizen's complaint against one of them, Napoleon Jones is now suing the Waukesha County Sheriff's Office in federal court. Court records reveal a Sheriff's lieutenant authorized searches of Jones' license plate in the department's Flock Safety database. That's scary. You never want anybody to have that kind of power. Why? Cuz we know, time after time, it's been proven power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And having this Flock technology, the Axon technology, the Genetec technology, Palantir, this surveillance one-stop-shop database where they collect all of your information and put it in one nice, neat location, the Signal Trace, the Shot Spotter technology where they can hear sounds and audio waves and put that stuff together, and if you're near one of these cameras that have this technology, they can hear what you're saying, they can see what's on your phone, they can scrape the data on your phone. Tell me that is not all-encompassing power. That is scary beyond Orwellian technology power. Jones' attorney calls it a second form of retaliation. Uh let's see. I haven't seen this video right here. Let's see what it says. Not sure if it's going to play. >> We've reported on four officers in Southeastern Wisconsin criminally charged for allegedly using these cameras to stalk dating partners. This case is different. Former >> to stalk dating partners. By the way, this audio is all the way up. It sounds a little low. Jones began recording in May 2025 when he questioned why a deputy in a Lisbon squad car pulled someone over in Sussex. Man, I can totally see this being misused. After Jones walked back to his car parked in a private lot, the same deputy pulled behind him. Now, why would he do that? If he was interested in transparency, if he was interested in upholding the Constitution, he would welcome being filmed. He would welcome being questioned, but he's not. Why is that? The deputy Brandon Shayhorn of Waukesha County Sheriff's Office told Jones he was being stopped because his temporary tag was unreadable. The department is contracted to provide law enforcement services in Sussex and Lisbon. Jones refused to hand over his driver's license insisting he could not be pulled over on private property. And Jones says this, "It just elevated from there." And And why would it elevate? Because if cops specialize in anything, they specialize not in de-escalation, but in escalatory practices. That's what they're all about. That's what happens on a traffic stop. Escalation happened and he pulled me out. And he had another deputy arrive and they placed me under arrest, put me in handcuffs, and put me in the back of the squad car. Oh, there's a Let's see if there's a video. Let's see if this continues. I would actually like to see the video of this interaction right here. >> The department is contracted to provide law enforcement services in Sussex and Lisbon. >> This is retaliatory. >> Jones refused to hand over his driver's license insisting he couldn't be pulled over on private property. >> Why are you opening my vehicle? Cuz you're not giving me ID. What are you What are you pulling me out for? I want to know what you're pulling me out for. >> It just elevated from there and escalation happened and he pulled me out and he had another deputy arrive and they, you know, placed me under arrest, put me in the handcuffs, and you know, put me in the back of the squad car. >> Wow. >> After sitting in jail for 5 hours, sheriff's office records show Jones was released without any citations or criminal charges. >> Wow. >> Internal documents also say deputy Jones >> And by the way, I know People are saying People are like, "5 hours, what's the big deal?" It's your life. They took away 100% of your freedoms for 5 hours. I don't care if it's 5 minutes or 5 seconds. They don't have the right to do that. That is evil. You're doing evil to your fellow human being under the color of what? It's not even under the color of law. It's under the color of well, whatever I feel like doing today. >> It's not a legal traffic stop as the parking lot was for a private business. Jones immediately filed this citizen's complaint with the sheriff's office alleging he was arrested without probable cause. This page in the sheriff's response caught Jones's attorney Nate Cade's attention. >> And in the packet was a single photograph of Napoleon's white vehicle, white BMW. The incident occurred on May 4th. So, that starts me thinking of what's going on. Why do you have a photograph of this vehicle 25 days later? >> And how many times have you done this to how many other people? And for what reason? Just cuz you can? Cuz you got the power to do it? >> image shows it came from a Flock license plate reading camera, captured 3 weeks after the traffic stop and 2 miles away from the parking lot where Jones was arrested. >> Wow. >> believe this was a proper use of Flock? >> No, in fact, it turns out that deputy was one of the ones doing the Flock searching. So, the very person who was being investigated was tasked with searching for the complaining person's vehicle on Flock. >> A review of those records showed Jones's license plate was searched more than 100 times by members of the Sheriff's Department. >> What the hell? I want to know from you guys, if you put your license plate in on this website right here, check your license plate, see how many times you've been searched and for what in your area. >> What went through your mind when you heard you were being Flock'd following this citizen complaint that you filed? >> Shocked. To be honest, I was extremely shocked. I couldn't understand why or how that would even be a possibility. From my understanding [music] is for criminal stuff. >> The Sheriff's Department's Flock use policy states department personnel are prohibited from using Flock provided data except for legitimate law enforcement purposes. >> Look, they even break their own laws even when it's written, even when it's like very clear to understand, they still break their own laws cuz they don't care. You have to abide by the laws and if you don't, you'll be punished, but they don't have to abide even by their own laws and policies and codes and ordinances. >> Those Flock searches, now part of an amended federal lawsuit, alleged that Jones was being tracked in retaliation for exercising his First Amendment rights. >> So evil. >> ordered by Lieutenant Farrell to conduct the search. >> So, Lieutenant [music] Farrell, on behalf of the Waukesha Department, asked you to do a search for Mr. Jones? >> Asked to do a search to find this white BMW with a improperly affixed plate. >> This is why Deputy Shayhorn testified >> Even if that was true, you're really going to be so petty as to pull somebody over for an improperly affixed plate? You got to be kidding me. >> thing as part of the civil lawsuit. >> What's the point? >> It has nothing to do with the criminal aspect. This has to do with the citizen complaint and whether or not they could either sustain or not sustain the complaint. You'd have to ask Lieutenant Farrell of why he wanted that done. >> This Flock audit shows it wasn't just Deputy Shay >> Yes, it is a question of why this lieutenant wanted this done, but the other question is, why did you go ahead and do it? Did Did you Are you not sensitized to what the Fourth Amendment says? Doesn't this person have a right for you to not do what you actually ended up doing in violation of the Constitution, you buffoon? >> Shayhorn searching for Jones's car in the database. A captain said under oath that she conducted searches as well. >> Anytime that I searched for his vehicle on Flock, it was pertaining to the internal investigation. >> Captain Lisa Panos echoed Deputy Shayhorn's reason for the search to obtain a photo showing Jones's temporary registration was improperly displayed. >> And I bet it was like pulling teeth to get that information, too, because these people like to hide in darkness. They don't want to be transparent at all, cuz if they were transparent, then you'd see how dark they were, and they don't want you to see how dark they are. >> When you have a citizen complaint with regards to a deputy, do you normally allow that deputy to participate in the investigation? >> No. >> Can you explain to me then why Deputy Shayhorn was directed to do flock searches of Mr. Jones's vehicle. >> Who was he directed by? >> Lieutenant Farrell. >> I don't know why a Deputy Shayhorn [music] would be involved in the investigation. >> I I don't know I'm I don't know anything about this. Isn't that interesting? All of a sudden they develop this law enforcement amnesia when they're about to get raked over the coals. >> Assistant complaints. >> Hate says Lieutenant Corey Farrell has not yet testified in the civil case. Farrell declined to comment when I called. >> Does the Sheriff even know this is taking [music] place? Has he signed off on it? >> I reached out to the Waukesha County Sheriff's office to request an interview to which they declined due to the ongoing litigation. How do you hope the situation ends? >> I would definitely like them to be held accountable and to even show some kind of acceptance of it and to at least say, "Yeah, we were wrong." >> The union representing Waukesha County Sheriff's deputies and the current Waukesha County executive declined my interview request due to the federal lawsuit. >> Of course they did because unions are going to back the blue no matter what. And you know what's interesting about this all this abuse of flock and Palantir and Axon and all this is that cops themselves are working against their own interests, their own freedoms, their own person, and their own families by doing this. The reason The reason tyranny is coming in is for a two two purposes. The psychopaths want to rule you and the people who support the psychopaths want you to be ruled. And it's more like number two is the worst thing because if most of us if the majority of us stood up and said, "No, we want freedom." Even if it's dangerous, even if it's a little bit more dangerous, we want freedom. We want the room to grow. We want to compete in the free market. We don't want competition eliminated. We don't care if there's d r u g s is as scary as it is or alcohol or anything like that. We don't want prohibitions because we know what prohibition does. We know prohibition gives rise to major crime including on the take and bribe ready cops and it makes us powerless so that you can criminalize us under the color of law. So give me dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery any day of the week. If you happen to go to haveibeenflocked.com, let me know if when you put your license plate in how many times you've been searched. Let me know what you guys come up with and let me know what your thoughts are on this situation right here. >> [bell]