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🔗 Eureka City Council Unanimously Rejects Proposal to Install License Plate-Reading Cameras CA
Eureka
Blocked
Success
🔗 Concerns raised over use of Flock cameras OH
Brookville
🔗 Performance of Automatic License Plate Recognition Systems on Distorted Images Analysis
"Results indicate that certain weather distortions drastically reduced the accuracy of ALPR systems, with the accuracy of the systems approaching zero in some cases."
🔗 Sparks council approves 25 license plate reading cameras at Legends, Galleria malls NV
Sparks
Expansion
🔗 Mayor's Office, Nashville Police Make Case for Video Surveillance Program TN
Nashville
🔗 Staunton installs license plate readers throughout city: What to know VA
Staunton
Paywall
🔗 Joint Statement from FBI and CISA on the People's Republic of China (PRC) Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure Cautionary Tale
Notes: How state-sponsored hackers from China used technology systems for law enforcement to spy on Americans and Chinese activists.
🔗 The Human Toll of ALPR Errors Analysis
Oops
🔗 Lawsuit Argues Warrantless Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras Is Unconstitutional Fourth Amendment
Lawsuit
Pushback
🔗 Flock Safety Expands Into Drones for Law Enforcement with Acquisition of Aerodome Technology
🔗 Surveillance company skirted regulations as it expanded across north Fort Worth HOAs TX
Fort Worth
Flocked Up
Illegal
Unauthorized
🔗 Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts Analysis
Facial Recognition
🔗 Texas public safety officials orders owner of license plate reading cameras popular in Houston to stop operating TX
Flocked Up
Illegal
"Texas public safety officials say the company that makes license plate scanning cameras Houston police use extensively for crime fighting has been operating illegally and ordered them to stop immediately."
🔗 Texas DPS sends cease and desist to Flock Safety for camera at private homes and businesses TX
Pushback
🔗 Flock Safety cameras approved for Cumberland RI
Cumberland
🔗 She's suing after Detroit police seized her car based on license plate reader data MI
Detroit
Lawsuit
Oops
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🔗 License plate readers, mobile surveillance system could be coming to Morristown TN
Morristown
🔗 LETTER Re: Cumberland Flock Safety Cameras RI
Cumberland
ACLU
Pushback
🔗 Kansas police chief used Flock license plate cameras 164 times to track ex-girlfriend KS
Sedgwick
Wichita
Abuse
Paywall
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🔗 Flock cameras sawed off and stolen in Winona, Minnesota MN
Winona
Vandalism
🔗 Stoughton council members vote to terminate Flock contract WI
Stoughton
Success
Sunsetting
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🔗 Former Kenosha Co. deputy charged with misusing Flock camera system WI
Kenosha County
Abuse
More coverage (6 related entries):
🔗 Sun Prairie ends Flock contract, will consider different license plate reader WI
Sun Prairie
Axon
Switcheroo
🔗 Flock camera reported stolen from Watertown WI
Watertown
Vandalism
🔗 ACLU of Wisconsin question license plate reader privacy WI
ACLU
Lawsuit
🔗 A study found Syracuse's new license plate readers make frequent mistakes. Councilors didn't know before approving them. NY
Syracuse
"According to research published three years ago by a security and surveillance research firm, Flock license plate readers misread the state of 1-in-10 license plates. That does not include any other reading errors that may have happened."
🔗 Affidavit: Deputy used SCSO database to track ex-wife's location without her knowledge TN
Shelby County
Abuse
🔗 Lawsuit: LPD officers pull guns on wrong man at Chik-Fil-A drive-thru IN
Lafayette
Lawsuit
Oops
🔗 California Attorney General warned police about license plate data law. Departments ignored him CA
Illegal
Oversharing
Copies at:
🔗 How FedEx is helping cops build a mass surveillance network Analysis
More coverage:
🔗 Dashcam video, report released in North Myrtle Beach teen's wrongful detainment SC
North Myrtle Beach
Lawsuit
Oops
Copies at:
🔗 Sheriff, police shared license plate reader data. Sacramento grand jury says they broke law CA
Sacramento
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 The Mystery of AI Gunshot-Detection Accuracy Is Finally Unraveling Analysis
Audio Surveillance
🔗 NYPD's ShotSpotter Gunshot-Detection System Overwhelmingly Sends Officers to Locations Where No Confirmed Shooting Occurred, New Audit Uncovers NY
New York
Analysis
Audio Surveillance
🔗 New ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat EFF
Security Problem
🔗 Norfolk judge rejects police Flock camera evidence without warrant VA
Norfolk
Fourth Amendment
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🔗 Motorola Solutions Vigilant License Plate Readers Security Problem
🔗 San Francisco's New License Plate Readers Are Leading to Arrests — and Concerns About Privacy CA
San Francisco
🔗 HPD leans heavy on plate scanning cameras as technology steps in for staffing shortages TX
Houston
"Houston now leads the nation with more than 3,800 license plate reading cameras, acting Police Chief Larry Satterwhite said at a hearing on the department's budget for 2025."
🔗 Ord voted to ban Flock cameras. The county wants to keep surveilling drivers NE
Ord
Valley County
Success
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🔗 Colorado communities give the green light to license plate readers, advocates want to pump the brakes CO
Denver
🔗 Four Flock cameras approved by Clawson City Council MI
Clawson
New Outbreak
🔗 TPD conducting internal investigation into arrest of man whose license plates were misread by reader OH
Toledo
Oops
Video
Notes: An innocent driver pulled over after after a license plate reader misread mauled by a K-9 unit and hospitalized, and was then arrested and charged with resisting arrest and 'obstructing official business.'More coverage:
🔗 Licensing fight prompts UNC to cancel contract for automated license plate readers NC
Chapel Hill
Success
Terminated
🔗 Governor Newsom Announces Contract to Install 480 New High-Tech Cameras in East Bay to Improve Public Safety CA
🔗 Studies Show Flock's ALPRs Reduce Crime… So Long As Flock Controls The Inputs And The Methodology False Claims
🔗 Colchester debates police cameras after unapproved test program CT
Colchester
🔗 Flock Safety + CT - Colchester PD CT
Colchester
Notes: A copy of the order form Flock Safety sent to Colchester Police Department
🔗 Let's Talk About the Flock Study That Says It Solves Crime False Claims
"The information that is collected by the police departments are too varied and incomplete for us to do any type of meaningful statistical analysis on them."
Notes: A researcher named on the Flock study that claims to show it solves crime has concerns about the methodology and findings.
🔗 A company installed license plate cameras without permission. SC agency wants clear rules SC
Paywall
Unauthorized
🔗 Most CT drivers 'scanned hundreds if not thousands of times' by 'unregulated' license plate readers CT
Analysis
Legislation
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🔗 A license plate camera wrongly tagged car as stolen. Sisters sue Greenville police for arrest SC
Greenville
Oops
Paywall
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🔗 Flock Installed AI Cameras In This Small City And Claimed Crime Went Down. It Went Up. CA
San Marino
False Claims
Notes: Article goes through several of Flock's exaggerated claims of crime reductions, including rebuttal from researchers.
🔗 License Plate Surveillance Startup Broke The Law While Trying To Reduce Crime FL
IL
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"In June of 2022, an Illinois DOT official in contact with Flock representatives told the company it had many repeated, error-filled permit applications for camera installations. A Flock representative gave the IDOT official a thinly-veiled threat that if they didn't fast-track the process, Flock would send "about 30 different police chiefs" to their office to talk to them about it."
🔗 This $4 Billion Car Surveillance Startup Says It Cuts Crime. But It Likely Broke The Law. False Claims
Flocked Up
Illegal
Unauthorized
"Company communications with state transportation agencies obtained via public records requests, and interviews with more than half a dozen former employees, suggest that in its rush to install surveillance cameras in the absence of clear regulatory frameworks, Flock repeatedly broke the law in at least five states."
🔗 Flock Safety Faces Legal Trouble as AI-Powered License Plate Readers Violate State Laws, Putting Driver Safety at Risk FL
Tampa
Treasure Island
Flocked Up
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🔗 Ed Vogel: Illinois lawmakers are fooling themselves about license plate reader surveillance IL
Chicago
Paywall
🔗 Atherton officer involved in the arrest of M-A student also named in lawsuit over 'unreasonable seizure' and use of 'excessive force' CA
Atherton
Lawsuit
Oops
Settlement
"The department settled with the plaintiff on the case in 2023 for $45,000."
🔗 01-31-2024 letter to California AG Rob Bonta re: enforcing SB34 on ALPRs CA
EFF
Illegal
Oversharing
"Unfortunately, we have identified dozens of California LEAs that continue to share ALPR information with out-of-state agencies in violation of the law, including several that have expressly rejected the law as clarified by the Attorney General's Office."
🔗 KAKE NEWS INVESTIGATES: Duplicate license plate numbers lead to dangerous situations for some Kansas drivers KS
Colwich
Oops
Notes: The same thing happened to the same people again in Catoosa, OK.
🔗 East Aldine approves $1M plan to purchase security cameras that track license plates TX
East Aldine
🔗 Illinois State Police set to install license plate reader cameras in Lake County, possibly in McHenry County IL
Lake County
McHenry County
🔗 Sisters sue Española over traffic stop they say was illegal NM
Española
Lawsuit
Oops
Copies at:
🔗 New license plate readers coming to NC roads cause privacy concerns NC
🔗 Chief Troy Finner wants all Houstonians to install security cameras or license plate readers TX
Houston
🔗 Champaign's trial run of gunshot detection program fires blanks IL
Champaign
Analysis
Audio Surveillance
"Six months of data documented on the detectors, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows the system collected alerts for 64 total incidents. These incidents took place between April 8 and October 8 this year.
But 59 alerts marked as unfounded, which means the device falsely detected a gunshot or the device failed to detect a gunshot. In 21 of the unfounded incidents, it was determined that fireworks likely triggered the detector.
Five of the alerts were tagged as founded, meaning the detector accurately indicated and located gunfire. In four out of the five incidents, citizens had also called in and reported the gunshot."
🔗 La Mesa approves purchase of controversial license plate reader camera system CA
La Mesa
🔗 La Mesa latest city to approve contentious license plate reader technology CA
La Mesa
Video
🔗 Flock Safety User Guide Internal
🔗 Judge says Flock can't add more cameras in NC right now NC
Flocked Up
Illegal
Video
🔗 23CV003667-910 - Preliminary injunction - Oct. 31, 2023 NC
Wake County
Flocked Up
Illegal
Unauthorized
"Defendant's actions are an immediate an direct threat to the public health, safety, and welfare"
Notes: Enjoined Flock Safety from illegally installing surveillance cameras in Wake County, NC.
🔗 Attorney General Bonta Advises California Law Enforcement on Legal Uses and Management of Automated License Plate Recognition Data CA
Oversharing
🔗 California Automated License Plate Reader Data Guidance CA
Oversharing
🔗 Drive in Mass.? A police camera likely reads your license plate MA
Paywall
🔗 La Mesa police may soon purchase a controversial system to scan license plates CA
La Mesa
🔗 City approves amended Flock data-sharing agreement TX
Galveston
🔗 Ten license plate reading cameras planned for Milford despite data concerns MI
Milford
New Outbreak
🔗 Galveston city attorney opposing increased cameras is no 'IT specialist,' police union says TX
Galveston
Video
"Glywasky called it "simply unthinkable" to allow Flock access to "confidential city information." He raised concerns that a Flock investor owns a Chinese data-mining company."
🔗 Galveston City attorney sounds alarm over data-sharing agreement TX
Galveston
Paywall
🔗 Empowering Safer Communities: Houston Housing Authority Launches New Crime-Fighting Program in Collaboration with The City of Houston and Flock Safety TX
Houston
🔗 Post Falls mayor says city won't install Flock cameras, calls it 'spying' ID
Post Falls
Blocked
Success
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🔗 Whitman County Sheriff's Office halts flock safety cameras over community concerns WA
Whitman County
Success
Sunsetting
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🔗 How some CT police departments are using license plate readers and why location remains a mystery CT
Glastonbury
Hartford
🔗 'I'm going to shoot you': 2 men held at gunpoint before deputies realize their mistake, victims say TX
Harris County
Oops
""He pointed a gun at both of us and told me to get on the ground," Julian said. "I turned around, and he shoved me to the ground. He said, 'Get on the floor. I'm going to shoot you and kill you.'""
🔗 Efficacy of Automated License Plate Reader Hits in Piedmont, California CA
Piedmont
Analysis
Technology
Notes: Study finds that correlation between Flock system "hits" and both investigative leads and stolen vehicle recoveries is statistically weak.
🔗 Wisconsin AI-powered Flock cameras are tracking where you drive WI
Waukesha
""Do you envision a future with a Flock camera on every street corner?" asked FOX6 Investigator Bryan Polcyn.
"I envision that," Langley affirmed. "And I envision an America where crime no longer exists.""
🔗 This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You're Driving Like A Criminal Scope Creep
Technology
🔗 Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show CA
Sacramento
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Smith v. Haddadin (5:23-cv-01171) OH
Jackson Township
Oops
🔗 FBI misused intelligence database in 278,000 searches, court says Cautionary Tale
Notes: If a database exists, it will be abused.
🔗 26 cameras on major Syracuse streets could record thousands of license plate numbers daily NY
Syracuse
🔗 Privacy advocates, police spar over license plate cameras in South Carolina SC
Lawsuit
🔗 The controversial new technology Sharonville police are using to arrest criminal suspects OH
Sharonville
New Outbreak
🔗 As Flock cameras expand in the Houston area, here's what to know from proponents and critics TX
Houston
🔗 Vallejo police shared data in violation of state law, watchdog alleges CA
Vallejo
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Hazel Park, Madison Heights, and Southfield Police Share Experiences with Flock MI
Ferndale
Hazel Park
Madison Heights
Southfield
🔗 How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock's Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers ACLU
Activism
🔗 Woman wrongfully arrested in Fayetteville drive-by shooting case, receives settlement from police NC
Fayetteville
Lawsuit
Oops
Settlement
"The Fayetteville Police Department settled with McNeill for $60,000 and a written apology from retiring Fayetteville Police Chief Gina Hawkins."
More coverage:
🔗 Who's Watching Washington: Dangers of Automated License Plate Readers to Immigrant and Reproductive Rights in Washington State WA
Analysis
🔗 Lexington to potentially invest in 75 new Flock cameras KY
Lexington
Expansion
