A 76-year-old woman in Colorado did not expect her golden years to involve repeated run-ins with law enforcement. Yet here she is, getting pulled over again and again, not for speeding, not for running red lights, but because of a one-character error tied to a police database. That tiny typo has turned her ordinary drives into recurring traffic stops, and she has no easy way to stop it.
If this sounds familiar, it should. We covered a nearly identical case in Cherry Hills that has been making the rounds, where a Colorado driver was repeatedly pulled over after Flock Safety alerts flagged his vehicle incorrectly.
The culprit is a system from Flock Safety, which uses automated license plate readers to alert officers when a vehicle of interest is spotted in the area. It is designed to catch stolen cars and flag plates associated with criminal activity. In her case, it has flagged her vehicle as having stolen plates, which is incorrect. Every time she drives through certain areas of Colorado, the cameras pick up her plate, run it against the database, and send officers out to pull her over…