Thursday 404 Media reported that Flock taught America's cops "how they could surveil the No Kings protests" against President Trump (as well as "small parades") in a webinar last year that described "using a mix of Flock's technology and law enforcement's own databases." In the webinar, Flock's director of market management Caity Peak explains how real time crime centers which are police surveillance centers that utilize Flock cameras and other surveillance cameras can be used for emergency response, but can also be used to surveil "established events" like 4th of July fireworks displays, parades, bike races, Mardi Gras, and protests

Wired has managed to uncover some of the details about how search works for police officers using Flock.

Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said this week he's removing Flock cameras from state roadways

Florida joins a growing list of cities and states responding to the license plate reader backlash.

Two more states are scaling back their use of Flock cameras, over concerns about how the tech can be misused.

Florida ordered Flock and other automated license plate readers removed from state highways as cities and states nationwide respond to privacy and police misuse concerns.

schwit1 shares a report from WCTV: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said he's removing Flock camera from state roadways

Backlash against Flock has led to the state of Texas pausing funding on the AI cameras.

The survey also reported that more respondents said the surveillance would not make them feel any safer. TechCrunch reports that Flock CEO Garrett "faces a growing public outcry around concerns that Flock's surveillance cameras, drones, and license plate recognition technology could be misused." Responding to reports of police abusing Flock's system, Langley told CBS News " I don't think that Flock created police abuse

Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movementsand those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.

Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon

Anthony Ralphs was frustrated by the San Diego City Council's support for Flock

Slashdot reader fjo3 shared this article from Wired: [Flock] has told the public for years that its technology "cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals." It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned..

A man dressed as Darth Vader used a Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting in San Diego to mock the city's use of Flock surveillance cameras, sarcastically arguing that the technology would help the "emperor" track "rebel scum" and find Luke Skywalker

Anti-AI project noRecognition claims its flashy patterns help your car avoid detection from Flock cameras

A 'grand piano style' Blu-ray drive and USB dock has got tech fans excited over on Kickstarter.

Despite a public backlash against the tech, Flock's business is continuing to expand beyond license plate readers.

This goes way, way further than keeping an eye on license plates.

CEO apologizes for police misuse as activists call for vandal action against license plate cameras

Flocks surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage

After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.

Have I Been Flocked? lets drivers check public records to see whether someone searched their license plate through Flock.

Some take their criticism even further. Reacting to Flock's changes, an EFF statement calls it "Too little, too late," while calling it Flock's admission that their technology needs reforms

Politico notes that over 20 local jurisdictions in America "either stopped using Flock cameras or began the process of doing so in July, according to a tracker maintained by DeFlock, an activist group that has been mapping the company

While Flock announced changes for its AI-powered traffic cameras, "Several of the proposed changes Flock is touting are merely retreads of previous ," complains the American Civil Liberties Union

SquidInk created a 3D-printing model that would allow anyone to build an easy-to-install "protective cover" for Flock cameras

Flock Safety is tightening controls on its nationwide license plate reader network after mounting backlash over privacy and documented police misuse

Flock is introducing some extra controls over how its cameras can be used, to counter claims of unnecessary spying.

Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse.

Controversial surveillance company Flock Safety announced new privacy guardrails amid nationwide backlash.

US police officers have quit after using licence plate-reading cameras to track romantic partners.

SignalTrace can link devices to vehicles.

There's an app that can show you how many devices owned by surveillance company Flock Safety are in your neighbourhood.

Factoring in 337 alerts which "resulted in the recovery of stolen vehicles," the LAPD's cameras carry an error rate of 32.3 percent, effectively giving officers a one-in-three chance at pulling an innocent person over. "The biggest issue remains this national database at the FBI called NCIC," Flock's CEO Garrett Langley recently told The Drive, complaining about "how archaic its structure is." Flock CEO: There's no feedback loop mechanisms; it's really just a static comma-separated file

A Massachusetts newspaper reports that officials from the town of Littleton (population: 10,141) "claim that five of Littleton(TM)s Flock Safety cameras were switched back on by the company without informing the town..." Littleton had temporarily disabled the cameras earlier this year, according to the article, but upon discovering the cameras were still active, city officials say they directed the Town Counsel "to initiate cancellation of the contract with Flock Safety and directed the Town Administrator to coordinate the removal of the six cameras on public ways" with the Department of Public Works

Dozens of Flock cameras have been vandalized around Dallas Texas in the last six months, reports a local news station

In Georgia the Savannah Police Department "terminated four sworn officers and two civilian employees following an internal investigation into misuse of the department's Flock Safety License Plate Reader system," according to a local news report: All six cases are also under independent criminal investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation..

A leaked document reveals the surveillance company planned to tap roughly 350,000 rideshare vehicles for data collection.

The police surrounded her car Thursday, "drew their guns, and told her to come out with her hands up," reports a local news station. The police thought they were pulling over a murder suspect, but "It turns out it was a mistake by another department with the Flock license plate reader technology." The black woman says she'd wanted to call her mother, "but I'm like, if I make a sudden move, it's going to be over