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Flock Safety spokesperson who characterized OS Investigate as a product separate from the company's license-plate reader technology and said its capabilities and workflows may change significantly before broader release.
Flock Safety told buyers in 2019 that its license plate cameras were manufactured in the United States. Import records now show growing camera and radar shipments from a Thai supplier. WIRED could not establish where the cameras are assembled today.
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For years Flock said its license plate cameras were produced in the United States. WIRED found that claim gone from the newer materials while import records show cameras and radar parts arriving from Primax in Thailand.
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Alpharetta has about 120 officers and a Flock setting that auto-approves data requests from any police agency within 500 miles, which is how one suburb's plate reads reached Medicare fraud investigators in Illinois.
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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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WIRED says it pulled 69 prewritten police prompts and 45 tool definitions off Flock's own website. The procurement lesson: a vendor's "cannot" describes this build, not the next one.
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WIRED found 14 prompts in Flock Safety's unreleased investigation tool that need no plate, name, or description. The predicate for the search becomes the buyer's problem.
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