Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the Ban Flock Act, which would prohibit federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) or accessing data from local police and private ALPR systems like Flock Safety. The bill would also financially penalize state and local governments that continue using ALPRs by withholding federal grants, though it faces long odds of passage.
Background
Flock Safety is the largest ALPR vendor in the U.S., operating over 120,000 cameras that process more than 20 billion vehicle reads monthly, raising privacy concerns among civil liberties advocates.
- Source
- TechCrunch
- Published
- Oct 3, 2026 at 08:21 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10