Police Use of Flock Camera Mistakenly Identified Woman Who Was Then Locked Up

Our Take

Inside Edition's report on Lindsey Isaacs lays out exactly what we've been warning about: Flock Safety's ALPR network doesn't just read plates, it feeds probable-cause decisions that put handcuffs on innocent people. A camera flags a plate, an algorithm or a rushed officer treats that flag as truth, and suddenly someone's being hauled out of their life over a crash they had nothing to do with. Credit to the Inside Edition team for getting this story in front of a national audience, because these cases rarely make it past local news.

What's maddening is how predictable this is. Plate readers get obscured by weather, glare, dirt, or just bad angles, and the software guesses. Departments lean on that guess instead of doing the legwork to confirm it before kicking in a door or making an arrest. The burden of proof gets quietly shifted onto the person wrongly accused, who now has to fight their way out of a system that never should have named them in the first place. This isn't a rare glitch, it's a structural flaw in how blanket surveillance gets operationalized by police who trust the tech more than they should.

If you want to know whether these cameras are watching your own neighborhood, check our camera map to see what's been deployed near you. And if a story like this makes your blood boil, our take-action page has concrete steps for pushing back before your town becomes the next headline.