Flock Cameras Are Everywhere. The Guardrails Are Not

On a Florida interstate in October 2025, a speeding SUV swerved across several lanes, struck a motorcycle and triggered a pileup before fleeing. Three people died. Investigators pulled data from a nearby automated license plate reader and built a case around the Dodge Durango it had logged. The case was wrong. The woman they arrested spent 13 days in jail. Her story has become the sharpest example yet of what happens when Flock cameras point police in a confident direction that nobody bothers to check.

What Flock Cameras Actually Do

Flock Safety is an Atlanta company that sells automated license plate readers, usually shortened to ALPR. Its cameras sit on poles at intersections and along roads. They photograph passing vehicles and log what they see.