Congress Filed a Bill Called the ‘Flock-Off Act.’ It Won’t Take Down a Single Camera.
Somewhere in a public works garage or a police evidence lot, there may soon be...
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California Killed Its License Plate Camera Bill for a Fifth Straight Year. This Time, Nobody Even Had to Vote No
On the last day California lawmakers met this year, Senate Bill 1013 sat in a...
A Murder Case Alert Was Never Deleted — So Cops Pulled Guns On Innocent People Weeks Later
The camera did exactly what it was built to do. That’s the uncomfortable part. On...
Flock Just Rewrote Its Privacy Rules. It Still Can’t Stop A Typo From Turning A Press-Fleet Range Rover Into A ‘Stolen’ Car
Somewhere in Los Angeles this past June, someone at a Jaguar Land Rover dealership misplaced...
A Truck Driver Rammed Down Three License Plate Cameras in Rural California. Flock Safety Barely Noticed
Marcus Bee allegedly drove roughly 150 miles from his home in Pismo Beach to a...
DeKalb County Paid $19 Million for a No-Bid Decade of Car Surveillance
Every driver who passes through DeKalb County, Georgia gets photographed, logged, and run against a...
LAPD Quit Flock’s Camera Network Two Weeks Ago. Connecticut’s Smallest Towns Just Reached the Same Conclusion.
Somewhere in Killingworth, Connecticut, population barely 6,500, a handful of elected officials just made the...
A Georgia Crime Center Supervisor Got Busted Using Flock to Track Her Partner’s Car. She’s Also the Least Interesting Part of This Story.
Paige Forte did not chase a stolen Charger across three counties, crack a gang case,...
Flock Killed Its Scream-Detecting Microphones. The License-Plate Dragnet Bolted Next to Them Is Doing Just Fine
Flock Safety wants credit for backing off something creepy. Fair enough. It earned some. The...
Case-by-Case: Every Reported Flock License Plate Camera Error to Date
Automated license plate readers like those made by Flock Safety are marketed to police departments...
People Keep Destroying Flock Cameras Across America. The Paperwork Already Saw It Coming.
Somewhere in Ashland, Ohio, a city employee is filling out a purchase order this week...
Three More Georgia Cops Got Fired Over Flock Cameras — And This Time, Nobody Was Even Stalking Anyone
Eight days. That’s how long it took for a second Georgia police department to fire...
Five Officers Got Caught Misusing Flock Cameras in Georgia. The Real Story Is How Rare That Is.
Somewhere in Albany, Georgia, a license plate reader’s own paperwork just did something eighteen other...
Cops Keep Using License Plate Readers to Stalk Their Crushes, and It Keeps Happening
That little black camera bolted to a pole at the end of your street was...