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| Oct 17, 2026 | MapQuest now shows you Flock and other license plate reader cameras on your route | MapQuest, the OG software to find your way from point A to point B, is taking on the surveillance state.
The free mapping service unveiled a new feature for its mobile app on Thursday that allows users to turn on a "surveillance layer&... |
| Oct 15, 2026 | AI's Reckoning: Billions Flow Amidst Growing Skepticism and Urgent Safety Demands | Global AI investment rockets. Billions pour into advanced agents, on-device computing, and vast infrastructure projects. Startups like Manus secure hundreds of millions. Giants like SoftBank plan massive funds. This unprecedented expansion,... |
| Oct 14, 2026 | Courts Split on License Plate Surveillance: Federal Judge Calls Flock Searches Unconstitutional | |
| Oct 13, 2026 | Jamillah Richmond running for Boulder City Council | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Jamillah Richmond thinks the Boulder City Council needs new ideas, and that’s why she’s running for a seat on the Boulder City Council. Jamillah Richmond
Richmond, 42, is a single Black mother who ... |
| Oct 13, 2026 | Erie residents raise concerns over Flock cameras ahead of possible contract renewal | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
With Erie’s contract with surveillance technology company Flock Safety up for renewal next spring, some residents are questioning whether the town’s use of automated license plate readers strikes t... |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Top AI News Stories This Week (October 5–9, 2026) | The artificial intelligence industry spent the week chasing billions in new investments, introducing more capable systems, and confronting an uncomfortable reality: the technology is advancing faster than public trust, regulatory oversight,... |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Exclusive-AI surveillance startup Flock Safety to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources say | Oct 8 : Flock Safety plans to let go of about 18 per cent of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras and license-plate readers faces mounting opposition to i... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Lafayette leaders move toward cutting Flock contract funding with 2027 budget | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Editor’s note: This story has been edited to correct wording regarding the measure the City Council voted on.
The Lafayette City Council on Tuesday voted to move forward without funding for a Flock... |
| Oct 4, 2026 | A ‘weird’ IPO pull, a tainted reputation and the stalled breakout moment for AI wearables | Apple, Google, Meta and other tech companies are expanding their AI wearable offerings with glasses, rings, charms and pendants.
Smart ring maker Oura postponed its planned IPO on Tuesday, citing uncertainty in the IPO market.
Camera-equipp... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Tina Marquis eyes re-election to Boulder City Council | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Tina Marquis isn’t done.
The 55-year-old sitting City Council member is running for re-election. A Boulder resident of 24 years, Marquis has served on the council since 2023 and envisions a Boulder... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Scott Rendleman eyes a seat on the Boulder City Council | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Scott Rendleman is eyeing one of the five open seats on the Boulder City Council in November.
Rendleman, 58, is a former attorney who spent decades working in healthcare litigation. But he decided ... |
| Sep 29, 2026 | SF Keeps Flock Cameras After 1.6M Illegal Queries: New Rules Weaker Than Company Standard | |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Benita Duran running for Boulder City Council | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Benita Duran is throwing her hat into the ring to represent the city she has served for more than 30 years.
Duran, 65, is running for Boulder City Council. She ran for a seat on the council six yea... |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Flock cameras controversy set for Senate hearing | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Allison Mollenkamp, CQ-Roll Call
WASHINGTON — Flock cameras are under new scrutiny in the Senate as a privacy backlash against the law enforcement technology grows.
The Senate Judiciary Committe... |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Longmont delays deployment of replacement license plate readers | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Longmont Public Safety has delayed deploying 15 automated license plate reader cameras while officials review the department’s policies and Colorado lawmakers consider changes to state law.
The cit... |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Meet the CU Boulder student running to be city’s next mayor | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Jameson “Jamo” Goldstein is a 21-year-old mayoral candidate who is not treating his campaign as a novelty. Jameson “Jamo” Goldstein
Goldstein is vying for Boulder’s mayoral seat in the November ele... |
| Sep 16, 2026 | How a ski accident inspired David Martus to run for Boulder City Council | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
David Martus decided to run for Boulder City Council thanks to two broken ribs and a spleen injury. David Martus
Martus, 59, was skiing in Beaver Creek about a year ago when he smashed into a tree.... |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Longmont could use AI to draft police reports next year | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Longmont could begin using generative artificial intelligence to draft police reports next year under a $132,457 funding request included in the city’s proposed 2027 budget.
The money would pay for... |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Pro-Cop Red States Latest To Kick Flock To The Curb | Whatever wasn’t already going poorly for Flock Safety is just going to keep getting worse. Data collected by privacy activist group Secure Justice pointed out what Flock already knows: it’s losing customers at an unprecedented rate. More th... |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Wallach: 25 years later, 9/11 is the memory that never fades | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
It is hard for me to believe that we are upon the 25th anniversary of 9/11. How could time have passed so quickly? How could the most significant and traumatic day in my life, and that of my wife J... |
| Sep 11, 2026 | DHS Claimed It Had Found 16,000 Illegal Voters In Nevada. Now It’s Admitting It’s Less Than 200. | As we move closer to mid-term elections, the Trump administration continues to lie about election integrity, sowing the seeds for bullshit “rigged election” claims should the GOP fail to win the elections Trump wants them to win.
There’s an... |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Boulder will tighten Flock restrictions, re-evaluate contract next spring | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Flock Safety will remain Boulder’s vendor for automatic license plate readers until at least next spring as the city reconsiders its policies on surveillance tools, the city announced in a Thursday... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Boulder City Councilmember Ryan Schuchard running for re-election | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Ryan Schuchard was elected to the Boulder City Council by 46 votes in 2023. Three years later, he’s banking on his track record to boost that margin.
Schuchard, 49, is running for re-election to th... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Who would want the US to be run like a business? (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By LZ Granderson
When pushing for the United States to be run more like a business, please keep in mind that framework naturally conflates the populace with labor and public servants with bosses. A... |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Flock surveillance cameras become midterm campaign target as voters balk at tech companies’ power | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SARAH RANKIN
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Wisconsin’s candidates for governor want to limit them, while Pennsylvania’s say they support a ban. A Michigan congressional candidate called them “un-American... |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Cop Shops Keep On Dropping Flock Like It’s Hot | You have to know you’re fucking up when your largest and best-paying customer base is increasingly noping out of contract renewals. That more than anything is probably what provoked ALPR maker Flock Safety to start implementing a few guardr... |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Why the AI boom has become an election problem | Not very long ago, if you asked someone what they thought about data centers, they might have asked you what a data center is.
Now, an overwhelming majority of Americans know exactly what you're talking about, and they're against ... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Florida orders removal of Flock cameras from state highways | The Florida Department of Transportation is revoking permits for automated license plate readers on roads in the state highway system, according to a memo issued by the department on Monday.
The devices must be removed within 30 days of the... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Smile! You're on Dyson's $500 toothbrush camera | Are you ready to stick a $500 camera toothbrush in your mouth?
Dyson just launched an electric toothbrush and "precision flosser" that blasts water into the gaps between your teeth. How does it find those gaps? Great question — it... |
| Aug 30, 2026 | $1 is all it took for Texas to litter the state with Flock surveillance cameras from drivers’ pockets | Texas may already have around 13,000 Flock surveillance cameras watching its roads, according to crowdsourced estimates from DeFlock. What is more surprising is how many of them were apparently paid for by Texans themselves.
A Texas Tribune... |
| Aug 29, 2026 | Tech backlash reaches fever pitch as AI angst collides with social media fears | More than half of Americans say they’re more concerned than excited about the growing use of AI in daily life, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center.
That’s one reason data center construction is becoming a major issue f... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Prepare now for the possibility that your ballot won’t arrive (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
President Donald Trump wants the U.S. Postal Service to have complete say over who does and does not receive mail ballots from Colorado’s county election officials. And for now, the U.S. Supreme Co... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Boulder must listen to citizens about automatic license plate reader cameras like Flock (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The City of Boulder has finally listened to constituents and pumped the brakes on its search for an automatic license plate reader provider.
In an era defined by eroding civil liberties and serious... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | The resistance against Flock surveillance cameras has birthed a vigilante movement in the US | Drive down almost any main street in the US, and chances are an AI-powered camera is taking notice. Over the past few years, police departments across the country have quietly installed thousands of automated license plate readers to monito... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Tempe turns off its Flock license plate reader system, citing privacy concerns and risk for 'misuse' | More cities are walking away from collaborations with Flock.
Tempe, Arizona, said on Wednesday that it shut down its network of Flock Safety license plate readers and plans to terminate its contract with the surveillance company, citing pri... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Flock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Tech | Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didn’t need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities. Then it realized there was far more money to be made by courting governm... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | As Flock Vandalism Goes Mainstream, One Grand Jury Says Alleged Flock Vandal Did Nothing Wrong | Flock Safety has been on the wrong side of the press cycle — if not the wrong side of history — for most of the last couple of years. Flock’s automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are more comprehensive than many of those previously deplo... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Flock Once Tried To Turn Every Ride Share Driver Into Part Of Its ALPR Network | Until just recently, Flock never felt it needed to rehabilitate its image, even when several cities were dumping contracts and cameras over persistent surveillance concerns. When cities shut down systems, Flock just kept running. In some ca... |
| Aug 22, 2026 | Crime writers’ new conundrum: How to get away with murder when cameras are everywhere | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
For generations, crime writers could send a killer into the night with little more than gloves, a disguise and a getaway car. Today, the fictional villain must also leave the phone behind, hide the... |
| Aug 21, 2026 | CBP Officers And Contractors Abused Government Databases To Stalk Their Exes | This news will come as no surprise to anyone. Those who have been following police misconduct revelations for years have seen this happen time and time and time and time again. Those who are in the business of engaging in police misconduct ... |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Area (Atlantic) Columnist Decides *Now* Is The Time To Start Defending Flock Safety | 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 ... |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Flock Safety Builds Driver Profiles Without Plates: AI Reads Movement Patterns | By Adrian Parham
Published: Aug 20 2026, 8:30 AM EDT
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| Aug 20, 2026 | Gen Z's new anti-tech rebellion: making eye contact and listening to each other | Jameson Butler hated how much time she spent on her smartphone, so over the pandemic, she ditched it for a flip phone. It was meant to be a temporary "social media cleanse."
Years later, the 19-year-old still hasn't gone back... |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Boulder pauses search for automatic license plate reader provider | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The future of automatic license plate readers in Boulder is in flux.
Boulder City Manager Nuria Rivera-Vandermyde confirmed during Thursday night’s City Council meeting that the city’s request for ... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Mayor Aaron Brockett running for re-election | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Aaron Brockett is proud of what he’s accomplished in the 11 years he’s spent on the Boulder City Council and as mayor. That’s why he’s running for re-election in November.
Brockett, 53, moved to Bo... |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Flock Safety Decides To Implement A Few Changes After Months Of Negative Press | Flock Safety has spent a few years building a massive network of ALPR (automated license plate reader) cameras. Flock’s cameras are a step ahead of competitors. They not only grab plate/location info, but they provide searchable tags/images... |
| Aug 14, 2026 | America’s surveillance problem is much bigger than Flock (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Stephen L. Carter
“You are being watched” was the tagline that opened every episode of the television series Person of Interest, which ran from 2011 to 2016 and already feels ancient. The concei... |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Flock is tightening its safeguards as America reckons with a rapidly expanding surveillance network | Flock Safety is making changes in the wake of public backlash and media reports scrutinizing how its cameras are being used to surveil American drivers.
Flock's move to tighten its privacy and accountability safeguards, including new r... |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Flock Safety Reforms Leave the Warrant Gap Open: Officers Can Type Any Case Number | By Eloise Jones
Published: Aug 13 2026, 3:34 PM EDT
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| Aug 13, 2026 | Flock unveils changes after news report about police misuse of its network | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| Aug 11, 2026 | Hundreds Of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across The Country | Police departments across the country are lining up to launch drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs, and hundreds have cleared a necessary hurdle toward making deployment a reality, expanding aerial surveillance and data collection even i... |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Flock Safety Cameras Cut Down in 23 States: Fusion Centers Surveil People Surveilling Them | By Devin Culbertson
Published: Aug 10 2026, 8:05 AM EDT
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| Aug 10, 2026 | Make Boulder work for Boulder residents; staining the welcome mat; corporate shills not public servants (Letters) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Make Boulder work for Boulder residents
You know what would revitalize downtown Boulder? Goods and services that Boulder residents need. Having lived and worked (at the nexus of Pearl and Broadway)... |
| Aug 10, 2026 | It’s Official: Flock Is For Stalking | 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 d... |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Flock Secretly Pitched 350,000 Rideshare Dashcams to Police; Passengers Have No Rights | By Zachary Chambers
Published: Aug 07 2026, 11:38 AM EDT
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| Aug 6, 2026 | California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% Of The Time | Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers were first sold as upmarket add-ons for gated communities and HOA curtain-twitchers who wanted to keep tabs on what everyone was doing, whether they lived there or not.
Flock soon realized that... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Flock Safety Coaches Police to ‘Own the Narrative’ Before Citizens Can Speak | By Roger Satterfield
Published: Aug 04 2026, 9:11 AM EDT
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| Aug 4, 2026 | Top Tech News Today, August 4, 2026: Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Palantir & More | It’s Tuesday, August 4, 2026, and the tech world just delivered a single day that feels like an entire quarter compressed into 24 hours. Amazon joined the exclusive $3 trillion club on pure AI cloud demand, Palantir posted near-doubling rev... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Police Used Flock’s License Plate Network to Stalk Women in at Least 50 Cases | By Earl Bensen
Published: Aug 04 2026, 7:32 AM EDT
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| Aug 3, 2026 | Flock cameras are everywhere. Here's how they track cars. | Flock cameras are in thousands of communities across the country and often hide in plain sight.
A Flock camera is an automated license plate reader, or ALPR, made by the public-safety technology company Flock Safety.
The cameras are commonl... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police | |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Expansion Of Flock Camera Systems Is Leading To Even More False Positives | Flock Safety’s aggressive expansion into the law enforcement market has been coupled with nearly constant negative coverage of its tech and its practices. Multiple cities have paused or cancelled their agreements with Flock following public... |
| Jul 28, 2026 | Aquiles La Grave running for Boulder Mayor | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Aquiles La Grave is throwing his hat into the ring.
The 48-year-old entrepreneur is running to be the mayor of Boulder, challenging incumbent Aaron Brockett. La Grave is a tech professional and imm... |
| Jul 25, 2026 | Community Editorial Board: Considering photo traffic enforcement cameras | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local issues, respond to the following question: Longmont recently installed the c... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Victory! Flock Ends Rollout Of Audio “Distress Detection” Of Human Voices | Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of... |
| Jul 18, 2026 | Flock Safety Kills Screaming Detector After EFF Pressure, Cameras Still Listen | By Clayton Lewis
Published: Jul 18 2026, 9:40 PM EDT
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| Jul 17, 2026 | LAPD Cuts Off Flock Safety After Audit Finds One-in-Three Hot-List Alerts Were False | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Jul 17 2026, 6:42 AM EDT
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| Jul 16, 2026 | Cops Continue To Prove They Can’t Be Trusted With Surveillance Tech | This is probably nothing more than another data point in a deluge, but it’s worth pointing out because it’s instructive.
Cops are using a whole lot of surveillance tech these days. Flock Safety has been especially aggressive in pursuing the... |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Flock, license plate readers don’t belong in Boulder; our skies belong to us; Burton should be on council (Letters) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Flock, license plate readers don’t belong in Boulder
I fully agree with the Daily Camera July 9, 2026, Guest Opinion “Boulder should halt use of Flock – and all other automatic license plate reader... |
| Jul 14, 2026 | Flock is falling out of favor with police departments | Flock Safety is hitting a rough patch with one of its biggest customers.
The Los Angeles Police Department let its deal with the surveillance company expire over the past weekend, a spokesperson of the department told Business Insider on Mo... |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Boulder should halt use of Flock – and all other automatic license plate readers (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Brian C. Keegan, Jed Brown and Andrew Brandt
The City of Boulder will choose a new vendor in the coming weeks to run the city’s automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). The city’s deployment of ... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | This startup wants to turn the world into a searchable video feed, starting in San Francisco | It sounds like the opening scene of a surveillance thriller: a startup is trying to turn San Francisco into a searchable video feed.
Orchestra, a 10-month-old company, has set up more than 100 street-facing cameras across the city, giving i... |
| Jun 24, 2026 | Surveillance Tech Company Is Pitching An Unholy ALPR/Stingray Hybrid To Law Enforcement | Here’s something no one but cops and the tech firms that love cops wanted: an ALPR that can scoop up pretty much any information being broadcasted by cars and the devices carried by the people inside them. As if ALPRs weren’t already contro... |
| Jun 22, 2026 | Colorado state trooper facing sexual assault and strangulation charges, arrested in Loveland | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A Colorado State Patrol trooper was arrested Friday by the Loveland Police Department in connection to 2024 sexual assault allegations, according to officials.
Jeremiah Patterson, 34, is facing sex... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Surveillance Is Good Because I Want Drivers I Don’t Like To Be Punished: Cleveland Columnist | Here it is: the dumbest defense of automatic license plate readers I’ve ever read. While we can subtract some points because the person writing it has no power to install/un-install/cover in garbage bags surveillance tech, he’s a regular co... |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Flock Is The New Tool Of Choice For Cops Who Love Stalking Their Exes | Cops are human beings. Despite constantly pretending they’re on a higher plane (see also: Thin Blue Line, etc.), they’re just as fallible as anyone else. Especially now.
This occupation is self-selecting. Righting wrongs is rarely the main ... |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Longmont group raises concerns about city’s surveillance | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A growing group of Longmont residents is organizing around concerns about surveillance technology, government transparency and digital privacy.
About two dozen people gathered Monday evening at St.... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | AirSight and Flock Announce Strategic Partnership Following Grant Parish Smuggling Bust | Flock and AirSight Announce Integration
AirSight today announced a strategic partnership with Flock, the public-safety operating system trusted by thousands of law enforcement agencies nationwide.
With drone detection we now know when there... |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Because Flock Can’t Be Trusted, Cities Are Covering Cameras With Garbage Bags | Flock Safety doesn’t seem to care about anyone. Not its customers, not those captured by its cameras, not even the legislators trying to find a balance between safety and privacy.
Flock started out by pitching its cameras — with built-in li... |
| May 29, 2026 | Pax: $40 Million Seed Raised After Cutting Crime 27% Across Brazilian Cities | Pax, an AI-native public safety technology company, announced a $40 million seed funding round co-led by Greenoaks and Benchmark. The financing is one of the largest seed investments in Latin America and will support the company’s expansion... |
| May 28, 2026 | Boulder police use Flock cameras as ‘dragnet’ illegally surveilling people, lawsuit alleges | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The Boulder Police Department uses its fleet of Flock cameras to illegally surveil people without any probable cause, a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday morning alleges.
Boulder has deployed and... |
| May 10, 2026 | If automatic license plate readers are here to stay, we must regulate how their data is accessed (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Late last month, mass surveillance scored a major victory in the Colorado Capitol.
Senate Bill 70 would have limited access to license plate-reading cameras’ data, including by any outside agencies... |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Boulder taking proposals for automatic license plate camera operator | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Boulder is now taking proposals from companies to operate automatic license plate cameras throughout the city. Flock, which currently operates the city’s cameras and has drawn controversy in the co... |
| Apr 22, 2026 | Someone spray-painted 2 speed cameras pink. Longmont police want help identifying them. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A person spray-painted the lenses of two Longmont speed cameras with pink paint in the early hours of Monday morning, and police are asking for help identifying them.
The person rode on a bicycle t... |
| Apr 19, 2026 | Flock license plate reader cameras improve safety; Iran’s nuclear ambitions; weak sentencing (Letters) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Editor’s note: A letter in this piece has been updated with a headline that more accurately reflects the contents of the letter. License plate reader cameras improve public safety
National Crime Vi... |
| Apr 17, 2026 | Flock Safety hits $8.4B valuation as AI-powered police tech sparks nationwide protests | Flock Safety is growing fast. The backlash against it is growing just as quickly. The Atlanta-based police tech startup has reached an $8.4 billion valuation following a recent funding round, according to a publicly filed corporate charter ... |
| Apr 5, 2026 | Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Jess Reia
For decades, cars dictated urban planning in the United States.
Few could have predicted that they would one day also double as nodes for surveillance.
In thousands of towns and cities... |
| Apr 4, 2026 | Flock cameras in Boulder deserve more scrutiny (Letters) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Flock cameras in Boulder deserve more scrutiny
People’s Republic Of Boulder, I want to inquire into the decision to use Flock cameras within the City of Boulder to cite vehicular travel in complete... |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Denver Battles Over Surveillance: A Critical Vote on License Plate Cameras | Denver's license plate camera program faces a critical City Council vote. The city plans to transition from controversial Flock Safety to Axon Enterprise. This move aims to address privacy concerns, particularly over federal agency dat... |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Denver keeps license plate cameras as council approves Axon contract in a tight vote | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Denver will keep using license plate-reading cameras at up to 20 intersections after the City Council narrowly approved a contract for the technology Tuesday night.
The $150,000 contract with Axon ... |
| Mar 30, 2026 | As Denver council faces vote on new license plate cameras contract, distaste lingers for ‘this whole Flock era’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Denver City Council members face a vote this week that will determine whether the city keeps dozens of license plate-reading cameras or ends the controversial program — at least, for now.
After the... |
| Mar 29, 2026 | Dave Taylor: How do Flock surveillance cameras work? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Q: Every time I drive the Diagonal, I see those alarming surveillance cameras just before I reach Boulder. What are they and how do they work? Are they a violation of my right to privacy? Dave Tayl... |
| Mar 25, 2026 | Longmont Faces Governance Shifts, Critical Development, and Tragic Incident | Longmont navigates a complex period. City Council considers dissolving the Airport Advisory Board after ethical concerns and public misconduct. Major downtown development for a Front Range Community College campus advances with significant ... |
| Mar 24, 2026 | ALPR Tech Now Preventing Parents From Enrolling Their Kids In School | All the people who have always brushed off concerns about surveillance tech, please come get your kids. And then let someone else raise them.
Lots of people are fine with mass surveillance because they believe the horseshit spewed by the im... |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Longmont council to weigh airport board dissolution, downtown campus votes | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A bill for an ordinance to dissolve Longmont’s Airport Advisory Board is set for its first reading before the city council Tuesday night, along with final votes tied to the city’s downtown Front Ra... |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Boulder’s contract with Flock deserves more scrutiny (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to clarify that the Boulder Police Department no longer shares Flock license plate data with the Loveland Police Department.
Mass surveillance has arriv... |
| Mar 14, 2026 | Boulder Grapples with Surveillance: ALPR Contract Draws Scrutiny Amid Privacy Concerns | Boulder faces intense public scrutiny over its Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) contract with Flock Safety. The city will welcome bids from new providers, even as Flock's current agreement renews with enhanced privacy safeguards. ... |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Boulder and Flock on track for contract renewal, but city welcoming bids | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
After months of mounting public pressure to reconsider its relationship with Flock Safety, the city of Boulder announced Friday that it will welcome bids from other license plate readers.
This does... |
| Mar 13, 2026 | SVVSD students tackle surveillance, AI, E-bikes at Democracy Day event | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Jack Shilgalis, a junior at Longmont’s Silver Creek High School, didn’t think he would support license plate reader cameras, initially thinking the surveillance technology goes a step too far.
But ... |
