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Automated license-plate-reading and video surveillance systems, like Flock Safety's camera networks, used by police to track vehicles and movements.
Flock's own training material describes a platform that fuses plate reads, drones, gunshot sensors and private indoor camera feeds into one protest dashboard. That is the capability an agency joining an ALPR network is buying.
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Every number in this case came out of a public records request rather than an alert. Three months of queries accrued in the log before any consequence arrived, which is what buying lookup power without a detector looks like from the outside.
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Michael Fultz typed the word "investigation" into Flock's mandatory reason field and queried his ex-girlfriend's plate off duty. Brevard County named him Deputy of the Year the same day she wrote to complain.
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The department let its Flock agreement lapse over data ownership, yet 138 city cameras keep filling a cloud it cannot read. The replacement deal is a spec sheet of data terms.
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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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Body camera footage of a Florida officer who stalked a woman he met on a TV set shows no perimeter was breached. An authorized user made authorized-looking queries, and nothing stopped him.
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Bill Swearingen ran roughly 31 million tests to produce printable patterns that make detectors ignore what they cover. His best validated result is 61.7 percent non-detection, in simulation.
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