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🔗 Flock Safety cameras help solve crimes. But who's watching the watchers? Overview
Video
🔗 Flock 'false flags' lead to frightening motorist encounters with police Overview
🔗 Lexington couple questions police response after Flock camera lead KY
Lexington
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🔗 Misuse Of Flock's Cameras Is Sending Innocent People To Jail GA
Suwanee
Lawsuit
🔗 Flock camera misused by four officers FL
Volusia County
Federal Government
Pushback
🔗 Student's new car gets flagged by Flock twice in 2 days; family blames old data GA
Atlanta
Brookhaven
Cobb County
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🔗 Keeping watch over the Flocks - Coastal Observer SC
Georgetown County
Flockaganda
"One client, she said, was stopped in Georgetown because Flock gave an alert that his vehicle's license plate was stolen. It was not."
🔗 RI woman says Flock camera misidentified her, leading to arrest RI
Cumberland
Lawsuit
Paywall
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🔗 Flock system mix-up leads to guns-drawn Brookfield traffic stop of wrong person WI
Brookfield
Milwaukee
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🔗 Flock cameras raise surveillance concerns - LimaOhio.com OH
Lima
🔗 Case-by-Case: Every Reported Flock License Plate Camera Error to Date Overview
🔗 BS! Flock Camera AI Mistake Led to My 90-Minute Police Stop! NE
Scottsbluff
Notes: We don't normally include TikTok videos, but this is a firsthand account from a reliable source.
🔗 LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen CA
Los Angeles
🔗 Automotive journalist surrounded by police due to Flock camera confusion MN
Plymouth
Notes: Once again, Flock immediately through the responding officers under the bus.More coverage:
🔗 An York County man was held at gunpoint over an incorrect Flock hit. Sheriff blames illegal tag cover. SC
York County
Lawsuit
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🔗 Dozens of Innocent Motorists Have Been Pulled Over, Detained at Gunpoint, or Jailed Due ... Analysis
🔗 A Flock license plate reader linked a San Diego man to a violent crime. He was five miles away. CA
San Diego
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🔗 Woman wrongfully arrested in deadly I-4 crash speaks out after charges dropped FL
Volusia County
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🔗 Flock Safety cameras help solve crimes. But who's watching the watchers? Overview
Pushback
Video
Notes: Points out that Flock employees' family members are speaking in favor of Flock at public meetings without disclosing their. It's also interesting that Flock's PR stopped the interview twice and refused to allow any questions about their viewing of cameras inside Dunwoody's Jewish Community Center.Copies at:
🔗 Not a one-off: More Coloradans stopped by police after data errors triggered Flock alerts CO
Boulder County
Jefferson County
Video
🔗 He didn't commit a crime, but Flock cam alerts keep getting him pulled over CO
Cherry Hills Village
Gilpin County
Video
""They entered it for both," Lyons said. "It wasn't a mistake, one or the other. They just entered it for both an O and a zero, because we've run it both ways and the warrant pops up both ways."
Dausman said he tried to resolve the problem by contacting Gilpin County courts and the sheriff's office dispatch, and was told he needed to provide the name of the suspect tied to the warrant — information no one would give him because it involves an ongoing criminal investigation."
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🔗 Sheriff's deputies thought they'd stopped a criminal. But license plate cameras led them to the wrong person CA
Oakland
🔗 Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud ND
Fargo
Cautionary Tale
Video
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🔗 Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency IL
Alsip
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🔗 Loose plate holder leads to errant traffic stop over Flock camera stolen vehicle hit AR
Sherwood
Paywall
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🔗 Flock camera error leads police to detain wrong man WA
Redmond
Video
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🔗 Flock: "you can't get a breath of air without us knowing" CO
Bow Mar
Columbine Valley
Denver
Louis Rossman
Video
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🔗 Lessons to be learned with woman falsely accused of thievery due to Flock cameras, experts say
🔗 After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence
🔗 Colorado officer who used AI cameras to falsely accuse woman of theft disciplined with extra training
🔗 Officer facing 'discipline' after falsely accusing woman of theft using Flock cameras
🔗 Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
🔗 Woman had to prove innocence after technology wrongly tied her to package theft
🔗 Denver woman sues police, Flock Safety after being falsely accused of stealing package from porch
🔗 Denver woman sues police, Flock Safety after being falsely accused of stealing package from porch
🔗 Colorado woman wrongfully cited for theft files class action against Flock
🔗 Denver woman sues Flock, police after being accused of a crime she didn't commit
🔗 Botched porch-theft case puts Flock cameras on trial
🔗 Woman falsely accused of theft based on Flock cameras is suing
🔗 Denver woman files federal lawsuit claiming Flock cameras were misused to falsely charge her with theft
🔗 Colorado woman falsely accused of package theft sues Flock, says the impact still lingers
🔗 Colorado woman falsely accused of package theft sues Flock Safety, police department and officer
🔗 Woman sues Flock, two towns for false theft accusation
🔗 Woman sues Flock, officer after cameras used in alleged mistaken theft charge
🔗 Colorado Woman Sues Flock After Cameras Used in False Package-Theft Accusation
🔗 Police Respond To Girl Being Kidnapped (Full Bodycam) FL
Saint Augustine
Video
Notes: Body camera footage shows Flock sending police after an innocent person, who they held at gunpoint before realizing they had the wrong person. WARNING: This video also shows an attempted kidnapping and is hard to watch.
🔗 When license plate readers get it wrong Analysis
🔗 'You'd think they just captured Al Capone:' Couple handcuffed in Morristown due to license plate mix-up TN
Morristown
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🔗 The Human Toll of ALPR Errors Analysis
🔗 She's suing after Detroit police seized her car based on license plate reader data MI
Detroit
Lawsuit
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🔗 Lawsuit: LPD officers pull guns on wrong man at Chik-Fil-A drive-thru IN
Lafayette
Lawsuit
🔗 Dashcam video, report released in North Myrtle Beach teen's wrongful detainment SC
North Myrtle Beach
Lawsuit
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🔗 TPD conducting internal investigation into arrest of man whose license plates were misread by reader OH
Toledo
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:
🔗 A license plate camera wrongly tagged car as stolen. Sisters sue Greenville police for arrest SC
Greenville
Paywall
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🔗 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
Settlement
"The department settled with the plaintiff on the case in 2023 for $45,000."
🔗 KAKE NEWS INVESTIGATES: Duplicate license plate numbers lead to dangerous situations for some Kansas drivers KS
Colwich
Notes: The same thing happened to the same people again in Catoosa, OK.
🔗 Sisters sue Española over traffic stop they say was illegal NM
Española
Lawsuit
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🔗 'I'm going to shoot you': 2 men held at gunpoint before deputies realize their mistake, victims say TX
Harris County
""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.'""
🔗 Smith v. Haddadin (5:23-cv-01171) OH
Jackson Township
🔗 Woman wrongfully arrested in Fayetteville drive-by shooting case, receives settlement from police NC
Fayetteville
Lawsuit
Settlement
"The Fayetteville Police Department settled with McNeill for $60,000 and a written apology from retiring Fayetteville Police Chief Gina Hawkins."
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🔗 'Mistakes were made,' says Charlotte manager about teacher wrongfully detained NC
Charlotte
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🔗 No charges for Aurora police officers who held children at gunpoint after erroneous traffic stop CO
Denver
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🔗 Sheriff pays East Bay privacy advocate nearly $50K in license plate reader case CA
San Pablo
Lawsuit
Settlement
"Brian Hofer, chair of Oakland's Privacy Advisory Commission, received $49,500 in an August payout from the sheriff's department"
🔗 Aurora chief apologizes for armed officers who detained children during stolen vehicle mistake CO
Aurora
Lawsuit
Settlement
"Wilson said the vehicle in which the girls were sitting had license plate information that matched a stolen vehicle from a different state, which caused confusion. 'The (License Plate Recognition) system reads the numbers and not the state,' said Wilson."
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🔗 When License-Plate Surveillance Goes Horribly Wrong CA
Hercules
Paywall
🔗 Another Bogus Hit From A License Plate Reader Results In Another Citizen Surrounded By Cops With Guns Out CA
San Francisco
Lawsuit
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🔗 Due to license plate reader error, cop approaches innocent man, weapon in hand KS
Prarie Village
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