Crime Radar Pulse

• Massive data reach: Hollywood PD shares scans from 100+ cameras with over 360 agencies nationwide, part of a pattern where local systems feed...

GRPD and Flock Safety presented on automated license plate reader data sharing at Tuesday's Grand Rapids Public Safety Committee meeting, emphasizing that 'Crime isn't geographic'.

Norfolk taxpayers shoulder a $430K annual cost for Flock ALPR camera subscriptions, pulled from the city's General Fund every year since FY24. This...

Users are voicing frustration with CrimeRadar's reliability and practices:

• Missed alerts leave people unaware of serious threats, as one user in SV...

Green Bay PD audited its Flock ALPR system after Wisconsin misuse cases surfaced, found no internal abuse, then suspended data sharing outside Brown...

Over 150 Apex residents packed a council meeting to challenge police on mistaken federal access to Flock ALPR data, demanding options from safeguards...

Apex residents are demanding accountability after local Flock camera data was shared with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for an embezzlement...

Flock Safety's nationwide license plate camera network enables rapid law enforcement data sharing across jurisdictions, prompting immigrant advocates...

Users of CrimeRadar Dispatch Audio repeatedly flag the absence of chronological event sorting, which complicates locating recent incidents, alongside...

No state earned a perfect ALPR policy score, though Connecticut, Oregon, Virginia and Washington reached six out of seven points on privacy, data...

Dispatch Audio subscriptions are billed through Apple or Google, not the app, requiring cancellation in store settings. This setup fuels frequent user complaints about billing access.

CC4J is urging residents to oppose Chico PD’s sharing of ALPR data with ICE and Border Patrol at the Aug. 18 City Council meeting, calling it...

• The legislation would give ICE, DHS, DOJ, DEA and Secret Service direct access to retailers' live CCTV, FLOCK camera data and facial recognition...

Lamar County Sheriff Danny Rigel urges residents to skip CrimeRadar and similar AI apps, advising simple common sense after a false shooting report...

A state bill would restrict license plate reader data retention to 30 days due to improper sharing and misuse concerns.

• Privacy concerns: Advocates...

Desert Hot Springs Police Chief Stephen Shaw defended Flock license plate cameras by stressing the system captures only plates plus vehicle details...

Independent journalist Jen Barber's deep dive into roughly 550 pages of Prescott records reconstructed a $154,000 Flock ALPR purchase made without...

Tempe police have ended Flock data sharing, directly citing two recent misuse incidents by law enforcement in nearby Valley cities. The decision reflects local governments acting on documented problems in adjacent jurisdictions.

Flock AI surveillance cameras misread license plates over 70 percent of the time, triggering false alerts on innocent drivers. League City Council...

Tempe stopped all Flock ALPR data sharing Monday, citing community privacy concerns and recent misuse by Chandler and Apache Junction officers.

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