LAPD sidelines relationship with license-plate reader company Flock Safety
The Los Angeles Police Department is the latest U.S. municipal agency to rethink its relationship to ALPR company Flock Safety.
The Los Angeles Police Department is not renewing its contract with automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera company Flock Safety amid a dispute over who controls the data Flock collects.
The decision to put the relationship on ice, announced July 11 by the LAPD, comes in the wake of an inspector general’s audit that pushed the department to stop using Flock technology pending the addition of enforceable privacy and security rules.
The audit found that over a two-month period, the department investigated 161 car owners whose vehicles Flock wrongly identified as stolen, according to 404 Media.
Source: https://therecord.media/lapd-halts-flock-safety-alpr-contract
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