Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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92 incidents closest to “Flock Nova” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The Flock system generated a 30-day chronological reconstruction of John Jay Niebuhr's vehicle movements from thousands of license plate camera captures.
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The Flock license plate reader system allowed sheriff's deputies to search and track Napoleon Jones's vehicle more than 100 times after he filed a citizen complaint.
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The camera photographed vehicles and people, capturing 1.6 million images over 21 days.
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Flock Safety cameras collected license plate and vehicle data from drivers in Boston and shared it with external law enforcement agencies.
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Flock cameras captured images and location data of vehicles and pedestrians, providing law enforcement with a searchable database of individuals' movements without warrants.
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The Flock cameras were used to track the location of a woman and her children without their knowledge.
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Flock system enabled detective to search for and track a vehicle assigned to an LMPD employee, potentially violating their privacy.
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Shared license plate data of vehicles in Boston with outside law enforcement agencies, against contractual agreement.
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The Flock ALPR system incorrectly identified Lindsay Isaacs's vehicle as involved in a fatal crash, leading to her wrongful arrest and imprisonment.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained data showing that over 50 law enforcement agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock Safety's automated license plate reader network in connection with protest activity in 2025. The searches targeted vehicles associated with protests, including the No Kings movement and animal rights activists, without articulating a specific crime. The surveillance creates a chilling effect on First Amendment-protected dissent.
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Automated license plate readers tracked the vehicle locations of an ex-partner and a civilian without authorization.
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The system identified a vehicle as a possible match for a road rage suspect, leading police to surround the home of an innocent man and his fiancée.
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The system incorrectly identified a vehicle as stolen, leading to a traffic stop and detention of the driver at gunpoint.
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Sarasota police officer Cory Waiters tracked a specific vehicle 355 times over five months using the Flock ALPR network and the state DAVID system, stalking the vehicle's owner.
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Searched the ex-girlfriend's license plate and personal information in Flock and other law enforcement databases without a legitimate purpose.
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Flock camera data falsely identified Lindsey Isaacs as the driver in a fatal hit-and-run, leading to her arrest and felony charges.
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The Flock camera system photographed and tracked vehicles and individuals, generating millions of images and license plate data for law enforcement use.
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The system misidentified a vehicle as having a missing plate, leading to a gunpoint stop of Joel Feder and his wife.
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Arrested Lindsey Isaacs for vehicular homicide based solely on Flock license-plate data.
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The system recorded and tracked the locations of vehicles and their owners without consent.
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A Flock camera recorded Lindsey Isaacs's black Dodge Durango near a fatal crash, and the lead contributed to her being arrested and jailed for 13 days for vehicular homicide.
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Flock Safety camera misread a license plate character, triggering a stolen vehicle alert that led Toledo police to conduct a felony traffic stop without verification, during which an innocent driver was bitten by a police dog, injured, and wrongfully arrested.
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The Flock Safety system captured license plate, time, location, vehicle make and model, and made drivers' movements searchable by law enforcement in Waukesha County and beyond without a warrant.
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Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proposed the Ban Flock Act, alleging that Flock Safety's license plate reader cameras are eroding privacy. The system is used by law enforcement agencies to track vehicles. The proposed legislation aims to prohibit the use of such cameras.
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