Instead, amid growing opposition to AI and federal law enforcement, Flock cameras have suffered from being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Flock cameras do not perform facial recognition to identify who is inside a vehicle, nor does the company’s network of ALPRs continuously track vehicles.
Around the same time, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered all state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras.
Flock cameras have been on the market since the company’s founding in 2017, with adoption growing steadily over the years.
Even better, state lawmakers should govern all law enforcement data collection and use with technologically neutral regulations that impose reasonable guardrails across the board.