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A Savannah officer handed her Flock login to her ICE agent husband
A former Savannah police officer was fired after an investigation found she had shared her login for the Flock license-plate system with her husband, an immigration agent.
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Flock CEO defends surveillance tech: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’
On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Flock founder Garrett Langley defended mass surveillance technology, insisting its crime-fighting payoff outweighs the risk of abuse.
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An Illinois college tried to cancel its Flock contract — and the cameras stayed
An Illinois college terminated its deal with Flock Safety, but the company refused to take its cameras down. It escalated to staff taping over the lenses with trash bags while unknown workers kept coming to uncover them.
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Sanders files bill to bar the federal government from using Flock
Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed banning federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers and from tapping the data those readers collect.
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock License-Plate Search Was Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
A judge in Oklahoma found that an officer violated the Fourth Amendment by running a California plate through Flock's automated reader network without a warrant. The nationwide system, she wrote, is approaching "indiscriminate mass surveillance."
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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Down
A researcher published a map of 300,000 Flock devices across the US, built from a leaked access path to the company's own database. Flock responded by demanding, through a contractor, that the site come down.
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A Single Flock Camera Hit Put an Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
A 23-year-old Florida woman was arrested for a triple-fatal crash on the strength of one license-plate-camera image of her car. Her vehicle didn't have so much as a dent.
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Hackers Cracked Flock's Camera Software and Showed How It Tracks Cars and People
Activists took down a traffic camera made by Flock, copied its contents and extracted the encryption key. Analysis showed the device recognizes not just license plates, but people too.
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Flock Installer Called the Police on a Journalist Who Was Filming Him
Flock Safety, whose cameras automatically capture the license plates of millions of vehicles, has found itself in an awkward spot: twice over the summer its workers called the police on people filming them in public.
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Wisconsin Police Searched a Veteran's Car in Flock More Than 100 Times After He Filmed Them at Work
A U.S. Navy veteran used his phone to record an officer at work in a parking lot — and over the following weeks his white BMW was run dozens of times through the Flock license-plate tracking system.
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Florida and Texas Move Away from Flock Cameras Over Citizen Surveillance
Two states are winding down their cooperation with a provider of license-plate recognition systems amid reports of abuse. Flock's network numbers roughly 130,000 cameras nationwide.
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How a Dollar From Texas Auto Insurance Paid for Thousands of Flock Surveillance Cameras
In 2023, Texas lawmakers unanimously raised the cost of auto insurance by a dollar — to fight catalytic converter theft. Three years later, it turned out the money went to expanding a network of license-plate recognition cameras.
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Flock CEO Calls for “Compromise” Amid Growing Criticism of Surveillance
Flock Safety, the company behind cameras, drones and license-plate recognition systems, has come under fire from left- and right-wing politicians alike. Its CEO is proposing a balance between privacy and security.
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Surveillance in U.S. National Parks: NPS Installs Flock Cameras, Rangers Outraged
The U.S. National Park Service has installed automatic Flock license plate readers in Yosemite and other parks. Current and former rangers are calling it an invasion of visitors' privacy.
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Flock Admits It Got This Wrong: Stalking People Is Being Made Harder by Default
After reports of police officers using Flock's systems to stalk former partners, the company is changing its default settings and acknowledging a share of the responsibility.
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Why a Flock Employee Quit: “They Lied”
Jonathan Paz urged American cities to buy Flock surveillance cameras, but grew disillusioned with the company — after it emerged that federal immigration agencies had gained access to its system.
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Hunting Flock Cameras: An Anti-Surveillance Movement Gains Ground in the US
Across America, activists are disabling the automatic license-plate readers made by Flock, and the authorities are already treating the fight against them as a matter of national security.
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ACLU: Camera maker Flock systematically lies to governments and police
Civil-rights advocates at the ACLU have accused Flock Safety, a supplier of automated license-plate recognition systems, of a string of knowingly false statements to city councils, police, and the public.
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How a Typo in a License Plate Turned a Driver into a Car Thief: The Flock Camera Failure
Because two characters were left out, the Flock license-plate recognition system flagged an entire fleet of Jaguar Land Rover cars as stolen — and its makers insisted everything had worked exactly as intended.