Filings, opinions, and other legal matters.
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Six of the eleven senators set to grill Flock's CEO on September 23 are cosponsoring a bill that would fund more surveillance and put a new ICE-led intelligence center in charge of sharing it.
A draft article by Orin Kerr maps three Chatrie tests. When applied to ALPR, they kill real-time crime centers.
The company faces severe backlash and more and more cameras are being cut down and destroyed. Two cameras in Georgia caught fire; it's being investigated as arson, but will that be enough?
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.
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.
Flock's system captures over 130 data fields. In court, Flock calls them "wholly irrelevant" to a lawsuit about whether it ever disclosed collecting them.
While the existing Flock suits move toward consolidation, a new one drops; this time against The Home Depot and its "gravely dangerous" use of ALPRs.
Riverside County issued three encroachment permits for 500+ Flock surveillance cameras to the wrong permittee and based on incomplete applications. Then it let them lapse for over a year. Bianco and Flock continued to operate them.
The Iowa Public Information Board was created to resolve disputes and enforce transparency. In nearly 14 years, it hasn't.
Iowa's proposed ALPR bill was copied from Virginia's. Virginia proved it doesn't work.
Flock's boilerplate denial doesn't survive the statute it claims to follow.
How a complaint to Iowa's AG about Coralville's unenforceable ALPR policy forced a choice—and revealed the AG's selective relationship with transparency.
Two Georgia police officers face stalking charges after audit tools flagged repeated searches of the same plates. Flock's response: remove names from audit logs.
Denver operates Flock cameras without a finalized contract. Boulder admits it won't audit search logs. Colorado's open records laws make oversight nearly impossible.
The dropdown says more than the contract does.
Courtesy of Flock's lawyers in Schmidt v. Norfolk.
