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Flocked: How One Company Built America's License Plate Surveillance Network and How to Disappear from It

Flocked: How One Company Built America's License Plate Surveillance Network and How to Disappear from It

Brady, Amos

Paperback

General LawGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN13: 9798195143312
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Brittney Gilliam took her four nieces and her six-year-old daughter to get their nails done on a Sunday morning in Aurora, Colorado. They left the salon with their hands behind their heads on a parking lot, four police officers standing over them with weapons drawn.

The license plate reader had been wrong. The plate that triggered the stop belonged to a stolen motorcycle in Montana. Gilliam was driving a Colorado SUV. The system did not check before the officers acted on its alert. Aurora later paid $1.9 million to settle the case. The technology that produced that morning is now installed in more than six thousand American communities.

You have probably driven past one in the last twenty-four hours.

FLOCKED is the plain-English briefing on the Atlanta-based company that has quietly built the largest privately-operated mass surveillance network in the United States. In less than a decade, Flock Safety has installed an estimated ninety thousand cameras across forty-nine states. The cameras read every license plate of every vehicle that passes them. The data is shared with police departments, with federal agencies, and through configurations that most local governments did not know they had authorized. The company is valued at $7.5 billion. Most Americans cannot identify one of its cameras when they look directly at it.

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