Bay Area municipalities including Mountain View, Santa Clara County and El Cerrito have canceled or changed contracts for automatic license plate readers amid growing public privacy concerns, signalin…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley called critics of the company's automated license-plate reader network 'terroristic' in a July 9, 2026 report, escalating a privacy backlash that has led at least 30 l…
Home security camera owners must navigate a patchwork of state and federal laws governing audio and video recording. Video surveillance is generally legal in public areas like living rooms but illegal…
Automated license plate readers in the U.S. now scan 20 billion vehicles monthly, with over 100,000 cameras nationwide, mostly from Flock Safety. Cities are beginning to disconnect the systems amid pr…
TikTok creator Plonk is teaching viewers how to blind AI-powered surveillance cameras from Flock Safety, a network used by roughly one-third of U.S. law enforcement agencies. His satirical videos prom…
Flock Safety's surveillance cameras, including AI-powered license plate readers and audio-detection poles, are rapidly spreading across the US, logging every car and enabling law enforcement to search…
A Virginia woman discovered a Flock Safety Raven audio surveillance device installed in her front yard without notice, despite the city's approval of 75 such sensors not including her property. The Ro…
Flock Safety's AI-powered surveillance cameras, which track vehicles and individuals beyond just license plates, have rapidly proliferated to over 100,000 units nationwide, raising privacy and civil l…
AI-enhanced automated license plate reader cameras deployed by roughly 40% of US law enforcement agencies capture every passing vehicle without a warrant, with vendors like Flock Safety storing search…
A free, open-source route planner called DeFlock is helping drivers avoid automatic license plate readers operated by Flock Safety, which has over 100,000 AI cameras in a national surveillance network…
The South Portland City Council voted 5-2 to immediately terminate its contract with Flock Safety's AI-powered license plate cameras, despite the system's role in solving serious crimes including chil…
DuckDuckGo and Bing search results exposed police license plate searches from Flock Safety's automatic license plate reader system, revealing full plate numbers, case details, and investigation reason…
BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras on over 40,000 school buses across 24 states, plans to expand its surveillance system to record all passing license plates and share that dat…