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🔗 What Flock's defenders are missing Technology
🔗 Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms EFF
🔗 Institute for Justice Calls Flock Safety's Proposed Reforms 'Window Dressing' Overview
🔗 Flock's Cameras Remain Civil Liberties Threat Despite Updates ACLU
🔗 The Guardrail Guy raises concern over crash safety of some Flock cameras Copies at:
🔗 The City of Santa Cruz drew the line on facial recognition and Flock cameras. AI is testing us again. CA
Santa Cruz
🔗 Flock is falling out of favor with police departments
🔗 Congressman Speaks Out As Automatic License Plate Readers Face Scrutiny TX
🔗 More Like Stalking Than Security: The Quiet Threat of License Plate Cameras
🔗 What are Flock cameras, and why are they controversial in Berkeley? CA
Berkeley
🔗 Silent Watchers: The rise of Connecticut's police camera network - Inside Investigator CT
Statewide
🔗 InvestigateTV+ Weekend: Cameras across the nation Copies at:
🔗 Five Officers Got Caught Misusing Flock Cameras in Georgia. The Real Story Is How Rare That Is. GA
Albany
Abuse
🔗 Surveillance technology is inevitable. Or is it? CA
San Jose
🔗 Can Flock Cameras Tell How Fast You're Driving? Copies at:
🔗 'Get the Flock Out': Nationwide Backlash Grows Against AI-Powered Surveillance Tech Overview
Pushback
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🔗 Flock off! Public backlash explodes against mass surveillance cameras ""We have cameras that are used for everything from illegal dumping to drug houses to hotels that are just big problems," Kevin Cox, an engineer with Flock Safety, told prospective customers in a demonstration video of Flock's AI-powered Condor Camera. "There are endless, endless uses for what we can do with these things.""
🔗 Flock Safety Credibility Lost as it Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police Departments, and Public Across the Country ACLU
🔗 Jessica Burbank on the Rise of Flock Safety and America's Surveillance State Notes: This is an incredibly good interview with a reporter who really knows their stuff.
🔗 Dozens of Innocent Motorists Have Been Pulled Over, Detained at Gunpoint, or Jailed Due ... Oops
🔗 What we learned from tallying 1717 license plate readers across Cuyahoga County OH
Cuyahoga County
🔗 Privacy, legal experts warn about police expanding use of AI
🔗 Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
🔗 To Protect And Stalk: How Some Police Misuse Plate Readers Abuse
🔗 The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car Paywall
🔗 Police use of artificial intelligence grows as rules lag behind
🔗 Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants? EFF
Immigration
"Buried in the Flock Safety administrative interface, there is a drop-down menu where agencies select which NCIC topics to subscribe to. If Immigration Violator is selected, the local agency will receive an alert that a vehicle ICE is looking for has been sighted."
🔗 Flock's panopticon: sight, sound, and search CA
🔗 License Plate Readers Move Beyond Plates to Track Phones, Wearables, and Pet Microchips Scope Creep
SignalTrace
🔗 San Francisco Resident's Tour of Surveillance Infrastructure Shows System 'Greater Than Sum of Its Parts' CA
San Francisco
🔗 Flock Camera Controversy: The Type Of Data Collected (And Why It's A Problem) "At this point, it hardly matters whether the cameras collect facial recognition data. Vehicle information can clearly be just as invasive. Through it all, Flock continually tries to argue its data isn't what it obviously is: de facto mass surveillance. Flock is both denying culpability and doing next to nothing to stop the data from being misused. That should concern every American, not just those behind the wheel."
🔗 Who's watching the watchers of metro Atlanta's surveillance network? GA
Atlanta
Video
"Last week's denial becomes next week's feature."
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🔗 Stalker Cams: Inside the Widespread Abuse of Flock License‑Plate Readers Copies at:
🔗 AI in Policing: Automatic License Plate Readers
🔗 Don't Like Car License Plate Readers Invading Your Privacy? It's About To Get A Lot Worse SignalTrace
🔗 US Police Are Using AI Surveillance Cameras to Stalk Partners and Exes
🔗 Flock says its cameras don't track people. Its own training videos say otherwise. Video
""There's an epidemic, as we all know, of mass killings in America!""
Notes: Another great example of Flock redefining words. They don't track people, they use an object detection feature! Also a great example of how everything bad that happens with Flock is someone else's fault. And the fear sales pitch.Copies at:
🔗 Caught Watching Our Kids, Then Wiped Clean "When comparing both user exports and the event logs, sixteen Flock employees were removed completely from the user exports with no record of their deletion."
🔗 Report: Denver Shuts Down Flock Cameras, Auto Theft Declines CO
Denver
🔗 Report: Americans support targeted AI surveillance, oppose 'indiscriminate' monitoring UT
LiveView Technologies
Notes: Caution: The "report" in question comes from LiveView Technologies, which is based in Utah.
🔗 Flock Cameras Capture A Whole Lot More Than Your License Plate Number Copies at:
🔗 Denver's license plate cameras went dark for a month. Auto theft dropped 29% anyway. CO
Denver
Video
Notes: Another example of Flock taking credit when there's any hint that crime stats go their way and calling it an anomaly when there's clear evidence they don't.
🔗 Flock Leaked Cops' License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing Security Problem
🔗 Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People Abuse
🔗 Mapping Every Flock License Plate Reader Near US World Cup Stadiums
🔗 Where's the line between safety and surveillance? | Editorials | mtexpress.com ID
Pushback
Notes: This is a particularly cogent analysis of how thorny it is when abstracts concepts come into conflict with everyday life.
🔗 Some Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Getting the Trash-Bag Treatment Pushback
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🔗 Where are police FLOCK cameras in CT? I-Team dives into search data CT
Mansfield
Video
Notes: This is high-quality reporting. Very thorough coverage of how departments in Connecticut responded to records requests.
🔗 Eyewitness News Extra: Automated License Plate Readers CT
Legislation
Video
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🔗 Cities Are Blinding Flock Cameras By Covering Them With Trash Bags Pushback
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🔗 'BusPatrol' Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access BusPatrol
Scope Creep
"BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles."
Notes: Who could have seen this coming, except for everyone?More coverage:
🔗 More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints EFF
"Buford City Schools in Georgia, which serves only about 6,000 students, illustrates the scale of this prying. Between January 2025 and March 2026, school police ran more than 375 searches where officers listed school residency verification, or simply "RV," as the reason for the search. That accounts for more than half of all ALPR searches in that period, and in those three months of 2026, three-quarters of all searches were related to residency verification."
🔗 22 Investigates: Digging deeper into what Flock cameras are capturing IN
South Bend
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🔗 License plate cameras at Home Depot and Lowe's spark privacy fears Business Usage
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🔗 FLOCK Camera Abuse Increasing Nationwide - Ksst Radio TX
Abuse
🔗 Across U.S., lawmakers propose guardrails to limit the sharing of license plate camera data Legislation
🔗 Flock keeps spying on us all, and state and local officials aren't protecting us CA
🔗 Police Plate Readers Follow Public Rules, Retailer Plate Readers Don't Business Usage
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🔗 CT Flock camera network raises surveillance concerns: Philip Bump CT
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🔗 To The Surprise Of No One, Cops Are Using ALPR Cameras To Stalk Their Exes Abuse
🔗 License Plate Readers Built To Watch Drivers Couldn't Spot The Officers Watching Their Exes Abuse
🔗 The Creepy Reality Behind the License Plate Cameras in Your Town
🔗 Flock Safety Built an 80,000-Camera Surveillance Network on Police Trust and Now That ... Abuse
🔗 Flock Safety "transparency" portal raises access questions as Tompkins County agencies ... NY
Ithaca
Tompkins County
Notes: Talks about how they got rate-limited for trying to figure out what local Flock transparency portals exist for their area, because Flock refuses to disclose that information.
🔗 Effectiveness of Solving Crimes SD
Watertown
🔗 Benn Jordan, Musician, Scientist, and YouTuber on Flock Safety Cameras, Privacy & Surveillance Security Problem
🔗 AI Spy Cameras Suddenly Blanketing America Copies at:
🔗 Police Are Using AI Camera Networks to Stalk Women Abuse
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🔗 These AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras Are Everywhere—and People Have Had Enough Pushback
🔗 Police Have Reportedly Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Romantic Interests at Least 14 Times in Recent Years Abuse
🔗 Surveillance State: The growing use of artificial intelligence with camera networks UT
🔗 The Quiet Expansion of Surveillance: Why Flock Cameras Should Concern Us All
🔗 Stop Flock campaign targets invasive surveillance network Pushback
🔗 Municipalities: Beware of Changes in Flock's Legal Terms if You're Using or Considering License Plate Readers ACLU
🔗 84% of drivers stopped by Oak Park police in Flock traffic stops were Black Bias
🔗 EDITORIAL: As cameras go up, questions follow AL
Cullman County
🔗 Nationwide, communities say: 'Get Flock off our streets, no mass surveillance'
🔗 The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets BusPatrol
Paywall
"BusPatrol says its technology helps curb dangerous driving at no cost to cities. Public records from across the US often tell a different story."
🔗 Virginia police search vehicle surveillance data 24/7. It isn't always clear why VA
Norfolk
"The VCIJ analysis also confirmed a state report released in January: Virginia law enforcement agencies appeared to violate the new regulations by sharing surveillance data with 800 out-of-state agencies since July 1."
🔗 Smile! You're on Camera CT
Mansfield
Notes: Good discussion of the Hawthorne effect and why it's bad.
🔗 Flock Safety eyes new fundraising round Paywall
Notes: Is their IPO on the back burner due to widespread coverage of the many issues they've caused?
🔗 America's 'Scarecrow' Surveillance Towers Are Spreading Fast – And They're Smarter Than You Think Copies at:
🔗 State Laws Against Surveillance and License Plate Cams: What Works Best for Your Privacy Legislation
Notes: This is a good overview of the different types of regulations various states are starting to impose on this technology.Copies at:
🔗 When Flock Comes to Town: Why Cities Are Axing the Controversial Surveillance Technology
🔗 'Creepy surveillance': why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns
🔗 Police surveillance cameras offer a false choice between public safety and privacy RI
"Public safety is the result of community-based tools and systems that directly and tangibly support residents — it is not, and has never been, a result of indiscriminate 24/7 surveillance."
🔗 1308: Benn Jordan | The Surveillance State Stalking You Without Consent
🔗 Virginia police search vehicle surveillance data 24/7. 'Why?' isn't always clear. VA
"Anytime somebody leaves something vague as the reason like 'suspect' or' suspicious', you know there's no crime of suspicion; there's nothing illegal about being suspicious."
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🔗 AI systems are enabling mass surveillance in the US, and there is no national law that 'meaningfully limits' the use of this data
🔗 Ominous Surveillance "Scarecrows" Appearing Across America Scope Creep
"These towers can easily plug into local police feeds via cellular networks or WiFi, bringing AI-powered facial recognition to any public or commercial location you can dream of."
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🔗 School Zone Speed Cameras Double as 24/7 Vehicle Surveillance, Contracts Reveal
🔗 The Platform: Flock Safety Is Running on Promises, Not Policy
🔗 Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
🔗 'Your Data Will Be Used Against You': Author of new book on the dangers of a surveillance society Notes: Good discussion of how Flock data can be combined with other data purchased from private sources by the police.
🔗 A number of US cities are pulling the plug on Flock Safety's AI cameras Notes: This article says that 53 municipalities have rejected or shut off Flock. As of the time of this note, we only know of 51.
🔗 Roughly Estimating the Number of License Plate Readers in California CA
🔗 AI Surveillance Cameras Blanket America, Sparking Privacy Concerns
🔗 The Foilies 2026: Recognizing the Worst in Government Transparency EFF
"Taunton Police Department, Mass.: The police department told the ACLU of Massachusetts to cough up $1.8 million if the organization wanted its network audit logs–the highest public records fee we documented this year."
Notes: Describes some of the FOIA obstruction agencies have engaged in to conceal the details of their use of Flock cameras.Copies at:
🔗 4 Reasons Why Automatic License Plate Readers Make Mistakes Doesn't Work
🔗 From Flock to ICE, Here's a Breakdown of How You're Being Watched
