ANPR and Licence Plate Recognition
Automatic number plate recognition is the most widely deployed police AI system in the UK, reading tens of millions of plates each day against national databases. Coverage here follows network expansion, retention periods, access controls, and the growth of equivalent commercial systems such as Flock Safety in the United States.
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Officials in Florida's St. Lucie County have discovered 11 unpermitted Flock cameras with unidentified owners while removing the technology from the area. County leaders believed…
The Marin County Sheriff’s Office has been caught sharing automated licence plate reader data with federal and out-of-state agencies. The California force gathered the information…
Police in Florida have uncovered 14 unpermitted Flock vehicle-tracking cameras, with the owners of 11 devices remaining unknown. The discovery followed an order to remove all such…
VIDIZMO has proposed combining Flock data with facial recognition technology. The company says the system would allow police to search by face, vehicle or object. However, Flock…
Cindy Cohn has ended a 26-year run with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, including 11 years in an unspecified role. Her departure comes as public concern grows over mass…
Third-party surveillance companies are offering to add facial recognition technology to footage gathered by Flock cameras for police forces. Flock chief executive Garrett Langley…
Surveillance company VIDIZMO has pitched facial recognition tools to police forces to analyse footage captured by Flock Safety cameras. Flock chief executive Garrett Langley has…
Flock Safety has admitted at a US Senate hearing that it provides little oversight of its systems. The hearing followed a month of disclosures concerning the company's automated…
Congress must place clear limits on expanding artificial intelligence while protecting licence plate-reading tools, a sheriff has urged. Pinal County Sheriff Ross Teeple called…
Some city-owned street lights will be fitted with ALPR cameras under a three-month pilot programme with Axon Enterprise. The scheme will come at no cost to the city.
The L.A. Board of Police Commissioners has approved a three-month pilot programme to install ALPR cameras on city-owned street lights. The trial will run in partnership with Axon…
Two people have been arrested at a Springfield City Council meeting in Missouri after trying to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut down residents who attended the…
Chief executives from four leading surveillance and law enforcement technology firms have received invitations to testify in the United States. They have been asked to speak about…
The LAPD is working towards new agreements to collect more licence plate data and provide officers with new artificial intelligence tools. The move follows a pause on contracts in…
Police departments in Long Island ran almost 3,000 searches through a database run by Flock in a single month. The artificial intelligence surveillance system covers the entire…
Readers have suggested warrants, supervisor approval and independent audits as safeguards for ALPR systems. However, some have warned that restrictions could hinder investigations.
Hackers have dismantled a Flock Safety roadway camera and extracted its internal data, revealing how the system monitors people as well as vehicles. The files were shared with 404…
US lawmakers are introducing a bipartisan bill to cut highway funding for states that fail to limit the use of automated licence plate readers. Under the proposed No FLOCK Act,…
A hacker collective has taken down a Flock camera and published its data. The leaked files included thousands of videos and system logs. These records showed the device captured…
Dozens of communities have ended their contracts for Flock licence plate readers in the past month. Both Texas and Florida have also taken state-level action to step back from the…
Prosecutors in Florida have drastically reduced charges against a man accused of destroying a 3D-printed decoy Flock camera. Police in Oviedo had installed the fake camera shells…
Police agencies are reviewing safeguards and oversight for automated licence plate recognition programmes, as privacy worries and contract cancellations reshape how the systems…
Members of the US Congress have launched a cross-party push to restrict the use of automated licence plate readers. Under the proposals, states that fail to comply could lose…
Police officers across the United States entered jokes, insults, and random keystrokes when logging justifications to search an automated licence plate reader network, according…