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Crowdsourced project mapping automated license plate reader cameras, including Flock Safety's, to track surveillance infrastructure.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Flock Safety, through the security firm Doppel, filed a trademark complaint to take down Joshua Michael's map of 335,701 devices. The complaint leaves open how, by Michael's account, a Flock website handed an ArcGIS access token to visitors who never logged in.
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Chris Larsen gave the SFPD $9.4 million for its real-time crime centre and now says opposition to plate readers has grown huge in two years. Cities are switching cameras off, which makes retention the live term.
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The lobbying report making that case rests on one article by a Singham-funded outlet and some socialist party posts, and it argues about who funds Flock's critics rather than about the misuse they documented.
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August's cancellations ran roughly 45 times Flock's prior monthly rate, and the objection Los Angeles put in writing was contractual, a clause giving the vendor ownership of the plate data it collects.
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A women's advocacy petition and a 732,000-view video have Ulta publicly defending cameras it says sit in fewer than 1% of its stores. So far the record shows reputational pressure, with no clear commercial cost attached.
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More than 100 jurisdictions have cancelled Flock contracts and Texas has blocked state purchases, yet opposition to plate readers in one's own community still polls at 46%, and some councils simply switch vendors.
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Four days earlier, Texas froze the car-insurance fee that paid for at least 3,200 Flock cameras. Neither state needed its legislature, which says something about install bases built on permits and grants.
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A recording of an August call with Ohio officials shows Garrett Langley denying a documented case and coaching police on press strategy. Court records obtained by EFF contradict him.
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The costume at an August 19 committee hearing is the least interesting part. The interesting part is a one-year Nova deal, a state law warning, and a man who says he lost a month to a bad plate hit.
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At least 56 municipalities cut Flock Safety contracts this year. Axon has already replaced it in at least seven, which tells you where the real control point sits.
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Rangers are objecting to plate readers at Yosemite and elsewhere, and an internal Park Service letter describes Verkada cameras filling the license plate gap where Flock is absent.
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