PrivacyDigest10h ago

#Wildlife #Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of #Flock #Cameras for #ICE

highlights how ICE, which does not have a contract with Flock, continues to get access to Flock’s AI-powered #licensePlate scanning cameras thru local & state police…& difficult for the public to track or hold the agency accountable for. In this case, ICE has gained access to Flock data through an … agency that is nominally supposed to be focused on conservation
#alpr #privacy #ai

https://www.404media.co/floridas-wildlife-cops-are-searching-thousands-of-flock-cameras-for-ice/

Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE

Ron DeSantis has empowered hundreds of Florida conservation police to work directly with ICE.

404 Media
FlohEinsteinMar 30

I laughed out loud when we came across the car with this license plate. 😄
Then my wife asked me why I was laughing.  

#1337 #licenseplate

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmarMar 15

Gifts from the forest.

#Lithuania #LicensePlate #Homestead #Cleanup

PugJesusMar 7
LOL
LilMikeSFMar 1

#SFPD cop investigated for posting Flock #licenseplate reader images of wife's car on social media.

This week, a different #Milwaukee cop is facing misconduct allegations for using #Flock cameras hundreds of times to surveil & #stalk whereabouts of a woman and the car of her ex.

In the Milwaukee case the #victim discovered her license plate on the site www.haveibeenflocked.com and then complained to local #police who found the subject had been looked up hundreds of times by a 6 year veteran #police officer who dept says is reportedly resigning, but was still employed currently...

https://sfstandard.com/2026/02/27/san-francisco-cop-flock-wife-stolen-car/

https://www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-police-officer-charged-flock-camera-misuse-case

#CopWatch #PoliceState #Surveillance

Brad DevereauxFeb 26
Who knows who it is? Spotted in Kzoo. I know the answer because I saw the driver. It's not me. #Kalamazoo #Kzoo #Michigan #PureMichigan #VanityPlate #LicensePlate #Journalism #ReporterLife #NewsLife #LocalNews #SpottedInTheWild #MichiganRoads #WhatDoYouThink #NewsNerd #MediaLife #LocalNews
N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 23
🎁🚔 Vegas cops just got shiny new license plate toys from the Horowitz Foundation, sidestepping pesky public input. Because who needs transparency when #gifts are involved? 🎉🕵️‍♂️
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/vegas-police-are-big-users-of-license-plate-readers-public-has-little-input-because-its-a-gift #VegasCops #LicensePlate #TransparencyIssues #PublicInput #HorowitzFoundation #HackerNews #ngated
Vegas police are big users of license plate readers. Public has little input because it's a gift.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department quietly entered an agreement in 2023 with Flock Security, an automated license plate reader company that uses cameras to collect vehicle information and cross-reference it with police databases. Unlike many of the other police departments around the country that use the cameras in their police work, Metro funds the project with donor money funneled into a private foundation.

The Nevada Independent
InteraksyonFeb 9

Rider caught in EDSA bus lane with altered license plate

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://interaksyon.philstar.com/trends-spotlights/2026/02/09/308894/rider-caught-edsa-bus-lane-altered-license-plate/

PrivacyDigestFeb 3

#Kansas Town Uses #LicensePlateReaders to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed

Police in #Lenexa , Kansas used automated license plate reader ( #ALPR ) technology to pursue a man who wrote a critical op-ed about the police department, according to reporting by Kansas public radio station #KCUR. This is a rare public example of exactly the kind of #abuse that we’ve long warned against when it comes to mass-surveillance systems like #licenseplate readers.
#surveillance #privacy

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/alpr-against-op-ed-writer

Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU

Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers

American Civil Liberties Union
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jan 29
A federal judge in #Virginia ruled Tuesday that the City of Norfolk’s use of nearly 200 automated #licenseplate readers (#ALPR) from #Flock is constitutional and can continue, dismissing the entire case just days before a bench trial was set to begin.
Two Virginians had claimed that their rights were violated when the Flock network of cameras captured their cars hundreds of times, calling the entire setup a “dragnet #surveillance program.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/angry-norfolk-residents-lose-lawsuit-to-stop-flock-license-plate-scanners/
#privacy #4thAmendement
Angry Norfolk residents lose lawsuit to stop Flock license plate scanners

Plaintiffs called Norfolk's Flock camera network a “dragnet."

Ars Technica