Flock adds new guardrails as police misuse of license plate readers draws scrutiny

Flock Safety is implementing mandatory safeguards on its license plate reader system amid rising concerns of police misuse, requiring case codes for searches, audit tools for abuse detection, and reducing default data retention from 30 to 7 days.

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