Automatic license plate readers have long been marketed as tools that help law enforcement recover stolen vehicles, locate ...

Flock Safety is setting up cams and drones around the country. Here's why communities are fighting back and exactly how this ...

San Diego police cruisers. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) The San Diego Public Safety Committee approved the continued use of 54 surveillance technologies, including Automatic License ...

A new automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera installed near Walmart isn’t the kind of thing that sounds like big news. Authorities frame these devices as crime-fighting tools that help find ...

Automatic license plate reading (ALPR) cameras are everywhere. As a result of their increased presence, Virginia passed a law last year requiring sweeping reform to the way that police used these ...

Police departments in Eugene, Springfield, and Lane County, Oregon, are ending their contracts with Flock Safety, a major vendor of Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) cameras. Concerns with the ...

Lauren Fichten is a journalist at CBS News covering artificial intelligence, digital safety and online extremism. She joined CBS News after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill and was previously an ...

Sleek black devices well-hidden on high poles, around corners, or atop streetlights dot the roads of towns and cities all ...

Denver is getting rid of its controversial automated license plate reading (ALPR) camera vendor Flock Safety, choosing to award its new ALPR contract to Axon, the Denver Mayor's office announced on ...

Flock Safety's massive network of cameras, drones, and audio recording devices stores all kinds of data and has already been ...

Oregon State Sen. Floyd Prozanski is proposing legislation to regulate automated license plate reader cameras. The proposed rules would limit who can access ALPR data and require it to be encrypted. A ...

The department’s ALPR system is expected to be up and running by mid-July.