Can you cite some of them? You'd be looking for cases where it's Flock at fault, not where police simply decided to look for the wrong car (like: "any black Honda CR-V that passed this intersection at 10AM").
> Turns out that the ALPR had misread a ‘3’ as a ‘7’ on Green’s license plate. But what is even more egregious is that none of the officers bothered to double-check the ALPR tip before acting on it.
https://i.ibb.co/WWWYznHX/flock-future.png ;-)
Context: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/06/06/web-of-knowledge/
There are multiple cases of people being falsely imprisoned because police believed Flock over actual evidence. In each case Flock was wrong.
Can you cite some of them? You'd be looking for cases where it's Flock at fault, not where police simply decided to look for the wrong car (like: "any black Honda CR-V that passed this intersection at 10AM").
https://www.riaclu.org/news/flock-safety-image-led-to-false-...
https://reason.com/2026/08/13/flock-cameras-and-license-plat...
https://katv.com/news/local/sherwood-stop-sparked-after-floc...
For the edit specifically: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/human-toll-alpr-errors
> Turns out that the ALPR had misread a ‘3’ as a ‘7’ on Green’s license plate. But what is even more egregious is that none of the officers bothered to double-check the ALPR tip before acting on it.
Thanks! Reading now.
Isn't it a bit disingenuous to refer to them as merely license plate readers?
Cop-issued spousal trackers. 50 cases and counting.
50 known cases.
Exactly. One cop used it to track his almost 800 times in a few months.
They will just switch to Axon
[delayed]