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🔗 'Flock Flocked up' How a license plate camera misread unraveled one man's life. OH
TN
Morristown
Toledo
Oops
"In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes."
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🔗 The Troubling Personal Side of Public Surveillance Copies at:
🔗 Unregulated license plate readers are tracking Michigan drivers — here's what's at stake MI
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🔗 Cities join Amazon in cutting ties with license-plate reader Flock following Ring's Super Bowl ad—that Flock 'didn't have anything to do with' Pushback
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🔗 Transparency Update: ALPR exemption kneecaps journalists CT
FOIA
🔗 The Nationwide Revolt Against Flock Safety Cameras | The New Republic
🔗 ICE Can Reportedly Access Flock Surveillance Cameras — Now Americans Are Destroying Them Immigration
Oversharing
Vandalism
🔗 Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse Pushback
🔗 She Honked at ICE. They Shot Her Five Times. Video
Notes: Discusses (toward the end) how DHS attempted to use Flock camera data to find something to use to smear Marimar Martinez as a domestic terrorist.
🔗 Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers
🔗 Some cities ditching Atlanta-based company's license plate readers over immigration ...
🔗 LMPD Flock Cameras by Metro Council District KY
Louisville
Notes: Good breakdown of how cameras are distributed in Louisville. Hint: it's not "evenly."
🔗 Ring's Surveillance Backlash Is a Warning Shot for Commercial Real Estate Pushback
🔗 "Selling Safety": A Journalist's Guide to Covering Police Technology Notes: A thorough examination of how misleading claims made by companies selling AI-based "security" products can be.
🔗 The Deal has been Altered Further: Flock Publishes New Terms
🔗 The Asymmetry
🔗 The Devices We Invited In
🔗 ICE Activity Sparks Fear Over Potential Misuse of Surveillance Technology CA
Atherton
Menlo Park
Notes: This is a high-school newspaper. There are some career journalists out there who should be thoroughly embarrassed by how well-researched and thorough this is.
🔗 "Free" Surveillance Tech Still Comes at a High and Dangerous Cost EFF
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🔗 What police surveillance technology looks like in Cleveland OH
Cleveland
🔗 Inside the AI surveillance state
🔗 Can Federal Law Enforcement Access Your Ring Doorbell Videos? Here Are the Details, and Your Options. Notes: +1 for the recommendation to use devices that keep recordings local.
🔗 Sanibel Police Dept Refuse Open Records Request on Flock Safety Cameras FL
Sanibel
FOIA
Opacity
🔗 Michigan license plate cameras face backlash: Big help, or Big Brother? MI
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🔗 Ring Denies Rumors That Its Footage Is Used By ICE. Here's What to Know. Scope Creep
🔗 In Louisville, half the people charged last year in license plate reader cases were Black KY
Louisville
🔗 Amazon denies that ICE can access Ring camera footage via opt-in 'Community Requests' feature Notes: Discusses the partnership between Ring and Flock.Copies at:
🔗 Ring says it's not giving ICE access to its cameras Paywall
🔗 Hampton Roads Flock cameras surveil Black communities more intensely than white ones Doesn't Work
🔗 Flock cameras in Hampton Roads surveil Black communities more intensely than white ones, CNU study says VA
Hampton Roads
"Across Hampton Roads, majority Black census tracts, where at least 50% of the residents are Black, have four times the number of cameras as majority white areas."
🔗 Get The Flock Out! IA
ACLU
🔗 Inside the AI police tech firm whose data is being fed to ICE Copies at:
🔗 License-plate-reader cameras proliferate as police say they help catch criminals, but others raise privacy, security, Big-Brother concerns WI
🔗 FBI Circulates Bulletin: Keep Flock Searches Vague, Punish Transparency Notes: If you've ever wondered where "inv" comes from as the search reason for tens of thousands of Flock searches all across the country, this blog post explains.
🔗 Flock Safety faces privacy concerns, cancelled contracts across U.S.
🔗 Stalking your ex is SO much easier now! Abuse
Louis Rossman
Scope Creep
🔗 The Subscription Loophole: How Town Hall Bypassed the Public to Build a Dragnet NC
Wake Forest
Notes: This is incredibly thorough.
🔗 Public safety must-have or threat to civil liberties? Debate over Flock license plate reader cameras has taken hold in North Bay CA
🔗 Search Once. See Everything? Inside Flock NOVA Fourth Amendment
Scope Creep
Security Problem
🔗 'Democracy in action': Cities react to privacy concerns by canceling Flock surveillance contracts
🔗 Worried about surveillance, states enact privacy laws and restrict license plate readers Legislation
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🔗 53 Times Flock Safety Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure Security Problem
🔗 Privacy experts see dangers in Ring, Flock partnership
🔗 EFF's Investigations Expose Flock Safety's Surveillance Abuses: 2025 in Review EFF
Oversharing
Scope Creep
🔗 Flock Tells Customers to Disable Nationwide Lookup After Public Records Expose Search Activity Opacity
🔗 Flock Decides Cops Can't Be Trusted with Cop Data Opacity
🔗 Procurement Power—When Cities Realized They Can Just Say No: 2025 in Review EFF
🔗 Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves Security Problem
More coverage:
🔗 Flock Safety AI Cameras Exposed: Privacy Breaches and Surveillance Fears Security Problem
🔗 AI Bathroom Monitors? Welcome To America's New Surveillance High Schools Scope Creep
"License plate detection company Flock Safety and partner Raptor Tech are promoting a service called DismissalSafe to monitor arrivals and departures at pickup time, sending alerts when a pupil's ride home has arrived in the parking lot and confirming they've been safely collected."
Notes: These aren't surveillance cameras... but we do offer a service for tracking innocent kids.
🔗 Regular People Are Rising Up Against AI Surveillance Cameras
🔗 Closed doors: how Flock Safety sells its surveillance technology to anytown, USA. MA
Waltham
Notes: Mostly local, but good analysis of Flock's sales tactics and how they fly under the radar to get a foothold before community members can find out and object.
🔗 Automated License
Plate Readers In Iowa:
Review and Recommendations IA
ACLU
🔗 Flock-enheit 451 WA
Spokane
Activism
🔗 Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) in Iowa: Review and Recommendations IA
ACLU
🔗 Secret Searches
🔗 Our View: Canceling Flock Safety contracts is the right decision OR
Eugene
Springfield
🔗 Liberal towns backtrack on license plate trackers amid concerns about privacy — and Trump Pushback
🔗 A Vast Camera System Now Feeds Information to Police on Drivers Across the US "Flock cameras have been called invasive, insecure, and unconstitutional. Can a grassroots movement beat them back?"
Notes: Statistically speaking, person reading this, that grassroots movement is probably you! 💪
🔗 Police Surveillance is Ripe for Abuse WI
ACLU
Abuse
🔗 Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country Scope Creep
🔗 Cities Shut Down Flock Camera Networks Following Improper Access By Federal Agencies Pushback
🔗 The AI surveillance state isn't coming. It's here Notes: A good overview of how the various pieces fit together. Also states that Flock is doing twenty billion (20,000,000,000) scans per month.
🔗 Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras
🔗 License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People Abuse
EFF
🔗 Wyden, Krishnamoorthi Urge FTC to Investigate Surveillance Tech Company on Negligently Handling Americans' Personal Data
🔗 Police cameras track billions of license plates per month. Communities are pushing back. Pushback
Video
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🔗 Police camera system tracking billions of license plates causes some pushback Video
🔗 Flock Can Share Driver-Surveillance Data Even When Police Departments Opt Out, And Other Flock Developments ACLU
Technology
🔗 Leaving the Door Wide Open: Flock Surveillance Systems Expose Washington Data to Immigration Enforcement Immigration
Oversharing
🔗 Community Organizations and City Leaders Call for Denver Mayor Mike Johnston to Immediately Turn off Flock Cameras CO
Denver
Activism
🔗 Amazon's Ring Cameras Push Deeper Into Police and Government Surveillance Scope Creep
🔗 Ring shares doorbell footage with flock now Louis Rossman
Technology
Video
🔗 Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation TX
EFF
False Claims
Reproductive Rights
"That sheriff has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury."
🔗 Flock's Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices EFF
Scope Creep
Notes: This is particularly relevant in light of Flock's efforts to turn their "ALPR only" cameras into full video surveillance.
🔗 Virginia surveillance network tapped thousands of times for immigration cases VA
Bridgewater
Mecklenburg County
Immigration
Oversharing
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🔗 Who combed Virginia's Flock surveillance data for immigration enforcement? Search here. VA
Immigration
Oversharing
🔗 What can keep you safe from crime? License plate cameras stir debate. Copies at:
🔗 AI Startup Says It Will End Crime by Blanketing the Entire United States in Ever-Watching Spy Cameras
🔗 License Plate Reader Company Seeks Partnership With Dashcam Company, Which Isn't Scary At All
🔗 Public Interest Law Firm Responds to Flock Safety Pausing Federal Access to License Plate Reader Cameras Immigration
Oversharing
🔗 Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes 'Trillions of Images' a Month
🔗 Taxpayer funded AI surveillance: why Flock's 30000 cameras have to go Louis Rossman
Technology
Video
🔗 I'm Hearing About More Pushback Against Flock, Fueled by Concern Over Anti-Immigrant Uses ACLU
🔗 Flock's Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance ACLU
Scope Creep
🔗 You're Being Watched: The Company Behind America's Mass Surveillance Takeover Video
🔗 Analysis of Flock use by Wisconsin cops reveals trends, raises questions WI
🔗 Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops Oversharing
🔗 When license plate readers get it wrong Oops
🔗 Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious" ACLU
Technology
🔗 Automated License Plate Readers: Background and Legal Issues Fourth Amendment
Notes: Good overview of legal considerations from the CRS.
🔗 The feds' hidden immigration weapon: Virginia's surveillance network VA
Immigration
Oversharing
🔗 License Plate Readers Proliferate in Washington, Bringing Concerns over ICE Overreach WA
King County
Immigration
🔗 Houston police use a powerful surveillance tool to track vehicles. But they're not explaining why TX
Houston
🔗 Flock's AI Cameras Are Watching Cars All Over America. They're About To Get A Lot More Powerful. Scope Creep
Technology
🔗 Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool Technology
🔗 Flock Safety Pushes Back on Data Breach Product Criticism Technology
🔗 Axon Goes After Rival Flock With New Car Surveillance And AI Voice Assistant
🔗 An Evaluation of a Major Expansion in Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) Technology NJ
Atlantic City
Notes: A fairly balanced study showing that the effects of ALPR usage on crime rates exist but fall far short of marketing claims due to a number of confounding factors.
🔗 Flock Threatens Open Source Developer Mapping Its Surveillance Cameras
