{
 "id": "p2026-09-06-150",
 "received": "2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00",
 "proposer": "researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2024-2026",
 "kind": "entry",
 "sha": "7a1d9ec440a794dd",
 "data": {
  "kind": "entry",
  "tech": "flock-alpr",
  "tech_name": "Flock Safety automated licence plate reader network",
  "definition": "computer-vision models fit to vehicle images to read plates and classify make, colour and features",
  "from": "2024-06-01",
  "region": "US",
  "domain": "agency",
  "side": "loss",
  "people": {
   "n": 5000,
   "unit": "communities whose camera networks were searchable",
   "date": "2025-05"
  },
  "effect": {
   "n": 4000,
   "unit": "lookups",
   "date": "2025-05-05",
   "what": "nation- and statewide searches of the plate database run by local and state police for immigration reasons, including on behalf of ICE, which holds no contract with Flock; no notice or recourse for those searched"
  },
  "reversible": false,
  "switch": "owner:Flock Safety",
  "statistic": "404 Media, from Danville (IL) police records, counted more than 4,000 immigration-related nation- and statewide Flock lookups between 1 June 2024 and 5 May 2025, giving ICE side-door reach into camera networks in more than 5,000 communities. The University of Washington Center for Human Rights separately documented thousands of Border Patrol searches touching 17 Washington agencies, May–Aug 2025.",
  "source": "https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/",
  "quote": "more than 4,000 nation and statewide lookups by local and state police",
  "attribution": "named",
  "source_kind": "secondary"
 },
 "from_file": "impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2024-2026.md"
}