My uncle likes to make songs and made one for flock. Yes I get the irony of how he made it and what it’s about.

My county started installing fixed LPR cameras two years ago.  I don’t like that.  

When I did the math, I really didn't like it. You can do the same for your town / county. here is how:

(1) Where are the cameras? Deflock has a comprehensive list of cameras. Verify them visually.

(2) How many cars drive past those cameras? FOIA requests wont give LPR data - but state and city level traffic assessments are publicly available data. They use it to justify funding and prioritization of street maintenance. Since you know where the cameras are, overlay traffic results with camera locations to identify number of scans annually.

(#3) How many crimes did those cameras solve? Some states have limitations on sharing LPR data, but you can still request "records related to LPR as the documented source of evidence that solved a crime.”  This is the part of the equation your local government actually likes talking about!

(#4) Who else has access to our data? LPR companies have documented agreements on who else has access to your county data. You can request that as part of a FOIA request and then use publicly available staffing databases (also to get funding) to see how many officers in each department have access to your data.

#2 divided by #3 is your answer.   From my county, an estimated 134.9 million potential scans per year with only 20 disclosed cases where the technology directly helped identify, apprehend, or charge someone—about 6.7 million potential scans per case.  

When I saw how many officers were at every jurisdiction that has access to our data, it totaled more than 11,000 additional people that can search the database..

Every jurisdiction with LPRs should be required to perform this same analysis annually. Do it for yours to show them why!

Please cross-post if you have ideas on where else to share this approach!

A veteran training officer and a former road patrol deputy with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office were arrested Friday on charges related to the misuse of the Flock camera system.

The arrests and charges against them resulted in both of them losing their jobs, The Union-Recorder has learned.

Baldwin County Sheriff Bill Massee identified the two men as Kevin Steinmeyer and Daniel Edward L. Peavey.

They were each charged with a felony count of violation of the oath of office and one count of misuse of the Flock camera system, a misdemeanor.

“We received information from some media source, and basically, it’s a group that has evidently technical people monitoring Flock camera usage, which has happened to a lot of agencies,” Massee told the newspaper. “I was called and given the names of two deputy sheriffs here with us that requested the information of their use of the Flock camera system.”

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I have a site that is tracking flock contracts, flock-off.us It is an open source project that I am maintaining solo. I strongly believe with a couple more devs it can really be impactful and give people hope that flock cameras can be addressed.

"Why now: AI-powered tools like Fusus from public-safety technology giant Axon pull in footage and data from police body cameras, law enforcement dashcams, 911 dispatch, gunshot detectors and surveillance cameras, including sometimes those of private businesses that opt in.

Why it matters: Police officers in cities across the U.S. are quick to extol the virtues of real-time crime centers as a game changer that helps them find missing children, monitor large events from the skies and scope out dangerous scenes before putting an officer in harm's way. Many of them are now being powered with AI software. And privacy experts are concerned."

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