When Assemblymember Pam Hunter learned that a camera pole installed in her neighbor’s yard was scanning her license plate as she drove by every day, Hunter started digging.
Hunter, a state lawmaker representing the 128th Assembly District, soon learned that she had been driving past a Flock Safety automatic license plate reader, which scanned and stored the license plate number, color, and other identifying characteristics of her vehicle.
Flock’s artificial intelligence-powered scanners now track millions of American drivers’ license plates. The company is one of several that manufactures license plate readers. Flock has amassed a national surveillance network through thousands of local law enforcement agencies, universities, homeowner associations and more clients…