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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].

===Incident One (''Sep 18 2025'')===

{{~~Main~~|Police cameras tracked one driver 526 times in four months, lawsuit says}}

~~A new lawsuit~~ in Norfolk, ~~Virginia shows just how invasive Flock Safety’s cameras are: 176~~ of ~~them tracked~~ a ~~veteran’s car more than 500~~ times in ~~a two~~ months ~~and his co-plaintiff’s nearly 850~~ times in ~~the same~~ time ~~span~~. The ~~city~~ is ~~paying~~ Flock $2.~~2 million~~ in ~~taxpayer money~~ for ~~this system which works against~~ the ~~tax payer~~. ~~This same system which costs Norfolk $2~~.~~2 Million quietly logs each persons movements without warrants or probable suspicion~~. Flock ~~markets itself as a “safety network,” but civil rights groups warn it’s really building a massive, centralized surveillance database~~ that ~~police can tap into. It is~~ a ~~mass spying network that is used on ordinary people who’ve done nothing wrong, all to fuel Flock’s growing business~~.

A lawsuit<ref>{{Cite_web |last=Collier |first=Kevin |title=Police cameras tracked one driver 526 times in four months, lawsuit says |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/virginia-police-used-flock-cameras-track-driver-safety-lawsuit-surveil-rcna230399 |website=NBC News |date=2025-09-18 |access-date=2025-10-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251008230235/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/virginia-police-used-flock-cameras-track-driver-safety-lawsuit-surveil-rcna230399 |archive-date=2025-10-08 }}</ref> in Norfolk, VA, revealed that the city's ALPR system has logged the location of a plaintiff's vehicle 526 times in 4 months. The 2nd plaintiff in the case had their vehicle's position logged 849 times in a similar time period. The ALPR system is provided by Flock to Norfolk Police Department, in a deal costing $2.2m, in return for Flock providing services through to the end of 2027. The camera installation began in 2023 and at present there are 176 cameras around the city. The lawsuit is asking for the plaintiff's data to be deleted and the cameras disabled, arguing that these are an infringement of the Fourth Amendment and constitute a warrantless search. Flock counters this assertion by claiming that "LPRs do not constitute a warrantless search because they take point-in-time photos of cars in public and cannot continuously track the movements of any individual".

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 This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
 ===Incident One (''Sep 18 2025'')===
-{{Main|Police cameras tracked one driver 526 times in four months, lawsuit says}}
-A new lawsuit in Norfolk, Virginia shows just how invasive Flock Safety’s cameras are: 176 of them tracked a veteran’s car more than 500 times in a two months and his co-plaintiff’s nearly 850 times in the same time span. The city is paying Flock $2.2 million in taxpayer money for this system which works against the tax payer. This same system which costs Norfolk $2.2 Million  quietly logs each persons movements without warrants or probable suspicion. Flock markets itself as a “safety network,” but civil rights groups warn it’s really building a massive, centralized surveillance database that police can tap into. It is a mass spying network that is used on ordinary people who’ve done nothing wrong, all to fuel Flock’s growing business.
+A lawsuit<ref>{{Cite_web |last=Collier |first=Kevin |title=Police cameras tracked one driver 526 times in four months, lawsuit says |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/virginia-police-used-flock-cameras-track-driver-safety-lawsuit-surveil-rcna230399 |website=NBC News |date=2025-09-18 |access-date=2025-10-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251008230235/https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/virginia-police-used-flock-cameras-track-driver-safety-lawsuit-surveil-rcna230399 |archive-date=2025-10-08 }}</ref> in Norfolk, VA, revealed that the city's ALPR system has logged the location of a plaintiff's vehicle 526 times in 4 months. The 2nd plaintiff in the case had their vehicle's position logged 849 times in a similar time period. The ALPR system is provided by Flock to Norfolk Police Department, in a deal costing $2.2m, in return for Flock providing services through to the end of 2027. The camera installation began in 2023 and at present there are 176 cameras around the city. The lawsuit is asking for the plaintiff's data to be deleted and the cameras disabled, arguing that these are an infringement of the Fourth Amendment and constitute a warrantless search. Flock counters this assertion by claiming that "LPRs do not constitute a warrantless search because they take point-in-time photos of cars in public and cannot continuously track the movements of any individual".
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