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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116 incidents closest to “Flock Nova” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The system tracked and shared the location of a woman's vehicle with her alleged abuser.
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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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Three deputies from the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia were fired and arrested for allegedly accessing the department’s automated licence plate reader database without a lawful purpose. The misuse was uncovered following a self-initiated audit of the Flock Safety system. All three individuals face charges of violation of oath of office.
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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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Accused a Denver woman of stealing a $25 package.
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The Flock ALPR system flagged a vehicle as matching a suspect's car, leading to the arrest of Hugo Parra and Ariel Alonso Beltran.
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Flock Safety's license plate reader network allowed a former sheriff's deputy to search one woman's license plate location history 1,639 times without a warrant.
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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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Automated license plate readers tracked the locations of individuals, enabling deputies to stalk them without their knowledge.
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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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Unauthorized access to license plate data of ex-girlfriend and four other individuals
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The system misidentified her vehicle as being involved in a crime, leading to her arrest and placement in solitary confinement.
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A judge ruled that a police search using Flock's automated license plate readers constituted a form of mass surveillance. The ruling concerns the deployment of the AI-based camera system by law enforcement, which the court found to be an invasive surveillance practice. No further details of the case were provided in the article.
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The officer used the Flock camera system to access location data of coworkers without authorization.
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The system flagged Alek Schott's vehicle as suspicious, leading to a traffic stop, interrogation, and search.
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The Flock license-plate reader system collected and provided vehicle location data to the MPD for use in an internal affairs misconduct investigation, potentially affecting police officers.
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