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The Marshall Project
The Marshall ProjectOct 3, 2026
The Flock Backlash Catches Up to the Tech
From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers they rushed to install.
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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 2, 2026
Flock Promises Even More Ineffectual Features In Response To Congressional Demands
Flock is in the middle of a long losing streak. It's one thing to lose hearts and minds via PR work. It's quite another to lose actual dollars because you've lost a ton of hearts and minds by being on the losing end of mainstream media coverage for most the past two years. If it...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 30, 2026
Texas Officials Disband Local Cop Shop For Failing To ‘Provide Any Benefit To The Community’
"Defund the police" has come for at least one local law enforcement agency in one of the reddest states in the nation. This police department could have avoided this ignominious fate simply by not being generally awful. But the person leading the now-defunct department couldn't seem to do his job without violating rights on the...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 14, 2026
Appeals Court Sees Nothing Wrong With Terrorizing A 14-Year-Old To Obtain A Confession
It's easy to get submerged by the wave of bad news generated by the current administration on what often seems to be an hourly basis. Ask me how I know. My time is pretty much split between whatever ICE is doing and whatever Flock is doing, which results a whole lot of bad law enforcement...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 4, 2026
Cop Shops Keep On Dropping Flock Like It’s Hot
You have to know you're fucking up when your largest and best-paying customer base is increasingly noping out of contract renewals. That more than anything is probably what provoked ALPR maker Flock Safety to start implementing a few guardrails for use. It seemingly had no problem with being the target of negative press for most...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 28, 2026
School Asks Cops To Stop Using Stun Gloves On Its Students
Compliant Technologies probably would have preferred to keep flying under the radar. But a gaudy new no-bid contract with ICE (worth up to $20 million!) made it impossible. Prior to ICE's big purchase, it may as well have never existed. It only had a few clients, and those few clients purchased a few pairs for...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 27, 2026
Flock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Tech
Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didn't need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities. Then it realized there was far more money to be made by courting governments, rather than the richest parts of the private sector. A few years later...
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The Marshall Project
The Marshall ProjectAug 27, 2026
Women Learned Their Jail Strip Searches Were Recorded. Their Outrage Changed the Law.
Women who organized to push for a new Colorado law hope it will become a model for other states.
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 26, 2026
As Flock Vandalism Goes Mainstream, One Grand Jury Says Alleged Flock Vandal Did Nothing Wrong
Flock Safety has been on the wrong side of the press cycle -- if not the wrong side of history -- for most of the last couple of years. Flock's automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are more comprehensive than many of those previously deployed by law enforcement agencies. Not only do they capture plate/location data,...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 20, 2026
Area (Atlantic) Columnist Decides *Now* Is The Time To Start Defending Flock Safety
Flock's ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the go-to source of license plate images. Flock became the Ring of ALPRs, to mix a metaphor. And that's when the bad news began to roll...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 17, 2026
Flock Safety Decides To Implement A Few Changes After Months Of Negative Press
Flock Safety has spent a few years building a massive network of ALPR (automated license plate reader) cameras. Flock's cameras are a step ahead of competitors. They not only grab plate/location info, but they provide searchable tags/images that cover everything from car make/model to specific vehicle features. These photos also include images of the drivers...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 13, 2026
Flock (Again!) Activates A Camera System A Town Had Voted To Shut Down
The easiest way to tell that Flock Safety doesn't really care that its massive network of ALPR (automatic license plate reader) cameras is being abused by cops to stalk their exes and harass residents is to judge it by its actions. When confronted with court case after court case detailing these allegations (and those are...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 10, 2026
It’s Official: Flock Is For Stalking
Flock Safety is happy it's the go-to choice for tons of law enforcement agencies. While it does suffer some occasional bleeding, its supercharged automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) -- ones that not only capture plates, but pictures of drivers/passengers and full vehicle images to capture any other distinctive features -- are so widely deployed they're...
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The Marshall Project
The Marshall ProjectJul 25, 2026
How Troubled Law Enforcement Recruits Wind Up With a Badge and Gun
The killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero by an ICE agent in Maine is once more highlighting the problems with vetting and training in law enforcement.
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