Two journalists were stopped over a partial plate in an NCIC hotlist. Flock calls it a feature; the NCIC operating manual calls it a violation.
Flock credits its AI-powered "Audit Assistance" tool for a wave of officer arrests — press releases included. Exposing abuse after the fact isn't a fix; it's what keeps the surveillance sellable.
Cleveland's Flock contract extension passed 9-6 — one vote short of emergency effect, giving Clevelanders 30 days to force a referendum.
Flock's core rhetorical product isn't safety — it's fatalism. Every argument the company makes for its products reduces to "this was always going to happen, so the only question is configuration." Discourse in Cleveland is exposing why that argument doesn't hold.
Flock's contract requires prior approval before replacing hardware. Records from Riverside County show Flock replacing cameras and invoicing after the fact — and the county unable to keep track of what it's being billed for.
Flock's annual conference will be keynoted by Matt Eversmann, an urban combat veteran of the Battle of Mogadishu — hired by a company whose CEO calls its critics "terrorists."
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision "will send seismic waves through our Fourth Amendment doctrine," according to Justice Alito's dissent. It could.
Sixteen states argue that if one license-plate scan is legal, a city-wide surveillance network must be too.
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