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Flock camera system highlights concerns with privacy, misuse and immigration enforcement

Litchfield Park, other Valley cities making use of network

Near the Litchfield Church in September 2022, a car set off an automated license plate reader system alarm. The camera system, called Flock, told police the vehicle was stolen.

Police scrambled to find the driver in the historically affluent town. Once they reached the panicked driver, they discovered the Flock had strayed.

“The Flock camera read the plate wrong as AZ:074A45G when the plate actually read AZ:D74A5G,” wrote the officer, in the report.

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