Flock Safety is happy it's the go-to choice for tons of law enforcement agencies. While it does suffer some occasional bleeding, its supercharged automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) - ones that not only capture plates, but pictures of drivers/passengers and full vehicle images to capture any other distinctive features - are so widely deployed they're [...]

Flock's ALPR (automated license plate reader) tech spread from HOAs to police departments at an alarming rate of speed. What was once a toy for the over-privileged soon became the go-to source of license plate images. Flock became the Ring of ALPRs, to mix a metaphor. And that's when the bad news began to roll [...]