Six Defendants Allegedly Stole $4 Million in Rental Cars. The Going Rate Was $2,000 Each.
Six defendants are accused of taking about 150 rental cars worth more than $4 million with forged licenses and stolen…
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A Georgia Sheriff’s Office Fired Its Fourth Employee for Flock Camera Misuse This Year. Somehow, That’s the Good News.
Cherokee County, Georgia, wants you to read Wednesday’s arrest as proof its license plate camera...
259 Plate Searches, Zero Warrants: A Cop Turned Traffic Cameras Into Her Personal Stalking Tool
There’s a dropdown menu inside the New Bedford Police Department’s Flock cameras terminal that asks...
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...
Flock Wanted 350,000 Uber and Lyft Dashcams to Spy for It. Nobody Behind the Wheel Would Have Known.
The dashcam mounted on your Uber driver’s windshield was sold as a witness. A silent,...
Wichita’s License-Plate Cameras Misidentify Cars Up To 20% Of The Time. Now A Local Is Suing To Rip Out All 200
A minivan does not look anything like a pickup truck. Different silhouette, different proportions, different...
A Private Surveillance Network Built on Tow Trucks Has Scanned 9 Billion License Plates. California Courts Just Said That’s Fine
Somewhere in California right now, a tow truck is rolling down a residential street, and...
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,...
Melbourne Busted a License Plate Knockoff Factory. America’s Toll Cameras Have the Same Blind Spot
A Melbourne crackdown netted 79 arrests and a guy who allegedly mass-produced 875 sets of cloned plates. The real story…
A West Virginia Man Now Faces Felony Charges for Destroying License Plate Cameras. The County May Not Even Own Them
A man in West Virginia is accused of ripping license plate reader cameras off their...
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...
DeKalb County Paid $18.9 Million for “Ethical” Car Surveillance. A Deputy Voided the Warranty in Nine Months
Nine months ago, DeKalb County Flock cameras were unveiled with a promise: “safeguards to ensure...