Surveillance

As Police Misuse Flock Cameras, 2 Senators From Opposite Parties Demand More Oversight

Sens. Raphael Warnock and Katie Britt would seem to have little in common, but they both feel people should have more protection from bad cops with surveillance tech.

Joe Lancaster | 9.25.2026 2:30 PM

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It seems that automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are constantly in the news.

The roadside cameras—often called "Flock cameras" after Flock Safety, the company that manufactures most of them—capture images of license plates and store them in a database that can then be searched by police. While the technology is not new, it has come under intense scrutiny as numerous police officers across the country have been caught misusing the cameras.

Two U.S. senators from opposite sides of the aisle are now raising concerns about ALPRs and asking the government for more oversight of how the police use them.

"While law enforcement agencies around the country appropriately use ALPR for legitimate public safety purposes including the investigation of violent crime and the location and recovery of missing and abducted persons, misuse of these systems undermines the public's confidence in the technology," Sens. Raphael Warnock (D–Ga.) and Katie Britt (R–Ala.) wrote this week in a........

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