Federal Judge Calls Flock Search Unconstitutional, as AOC and Bernie Sanders Introduce Bill to Ban License Plate Readers

Judge rules use of Flock cameras to track citizens amounts to mass surveillance

A federal judge ruled a deputy's use of Flock data to apprehend a suspect, and the proliferation of ALPRs at large, amounts to "indiscriminate mass surveillance."

Judge rules Flock cameras violate the Fourth Amendment

A federal judge has ruled that a Tulsa County sheriff’s deputy violated the Fourth Amendment when he used Flock license plate reader technology to access weeks of a driver’s travel history, warning that the system risks creating a nationwide “dragnet” of mass surveillance. U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill, a Biden appointee, ordered evidence obtained […]

Federal Judge Rules Warrantless Flock Search Unconstitutional After Deputy Pulls Month of Driver’s Travel History — Calls System ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft

A federal judge in Oklahoma just threw out a drug case after ruling that police violated the Fourth Amendment when they used Flock Safety’s automated license-plate cameras to pull a driver’s travel history for roughly a month, without a warrant, and without probable cause.

Federal judge calls Flock search unconstitutional, as AOC and Bernie Sanders introduce bill to ban license plate readers

Oklahoma federal judge Sara Hill described automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) as a form of indiscriminate mass surveillance, comparing them to dragnet-style searches. Her ruling suggests that networked cameras like those sold by Flock and Axon differ fundamentally from other police surveillance tools, with consequences for the law and for...Read Entire Article

Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules

A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.