A Florida woman’s 13-day wrongful jailing started with a single license plate camera hit. The evide
The short version: A Florida woman spent 13 days in jail after a single license plate reader hit kicked off a case where the evidence reportedly never matched, per Manny Conchinha's new video.
Our Take
Thirteen days. That's how long one Florida woman reportedly sat behind bars after a license plate camera flagged her car — and, according to the video from Manny Conchinha, the evidence never actually lined up. This is the nightmare scenario privacy advocates have been warning about since Flock Safety and similar systems started blanketing American streets: a machine makes a match, a human stops asking questions, and due process gets outsourced to an algorithm nobody voted to install.
What makes these cases so dangerous isn't just the technology — it's the chain reaction that follows a single ALPR "hit." Officers treat a camera alert like probable cause, warrants get written, and by the time anyone double-checks the details, a person has already lost their job, their freedom, or both. Credit to Manny Conchinha for putting a human face on what too often gets buried as a footnote in a local court docket.
If you want to know whether cameras like these are watching your own neighborhood, check our map of known ALPR locations, and if you think your town shouldn't be feeding plate data into a system with this kind of track record, see what you can do at take action.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Manny Conchinha, Realtor, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.