LAPD is named in lawsuits alleging Flock ALPR data was shared beyond California; audits and legal fights are spreading.

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In February, CPD officers used Flock data to find a suspect in a ward one armed robbery. After a year of installations, Columbia’s Flock Safety surveillance system has seven devices left in ...

An agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration conducted unauthorized immigration-related searches of the city’s license plate data in February and March of this year, Louisville Metro Police ...

Police safety monitoring cameras, powered by artificial intelligence, have been scattered across Tompkins County beginning this year, and residents and local legislators are expressing concerns over ...

As North Texas police departments have increasingly turned to surveillance technologies to aid in investigations, civil liberties advocates have expressed concerns about the potential impact of ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut has called for a temporary moratorium on automated license plate readers throughout the state until lawmakers take action to regulate them, citing ...

Don’t you want to live in a crime-free utopia? Wouldn’t allowing the government to track our every move solve all our problems? Local authorities seem to think so, and they have the perfect tool to ...

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Flock Safety cameras are getting a lot of credit for helping police find the murderer of two students at Brown University and a MIT professor. A Reddit post began the hunt for the suspect’s vehicle, a ...