Cámaras Flock registran miles de alertas incorrectas en el monitoreo de lectores de placas
The short version: Univision Sacramento reports Flock ALPR cameras are generating thousands of false alerts, raising fresh doubts about accuracy and accountability in automated plate surveillance.
Our Take
Credit to Univision Sacramento for digging into something Flock Safety and its police partners rarely want to talk about: how often these systems get it wrong. A "hot list" match is supposed to be a precise tool, but when the underlying data is stale, a plate is misread, or a vehicle is similar but not identical, the result is an officer pulling someone over at gunpoint based on an algorithm's bad guess. Thousands of false alerts isn't a rounding error — it's a pattern that puts innocent drivers through terrifying, unnecessary encounters with police.
This is the core problem with mass ALPR deployment: these cameras scan every plate that passes, law-abiding or not, and build a searchable record of where you've been. When the system is also prone to false positives, you get the worst of both worlds — a surveillance net wide enough to catch everyone, but not accurate enough to trust. Departments rarely publish their error rates voluntarily, which is exactly why independent reporting like this matters.
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This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of UNIVISION SACRAMENTO, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.