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Police Used Flock Cameras To Track One Driver Over 500 Times. Now They're Being Sued
['Paul Stadden']
Jalopnik - Obsessed with the culture of cars
Oh, we expect cameras to snap a pic of us when we run red lights or speed through toll booths.
A retired veteran named Lee Schmidt wanted to know how often Norfolk, Virginia's 176 Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras were tracking him.
The answer, according to a U.S. District Court lawsut filed in September, was more than four times a day, or 526 times from mid-February to early July.
No, there's no warrant out for Schmidt's arrest, nor is there a warrant for Schmidt's co-plaintiff, Crystal Arrington, whom the system tagged 849 times in roughly the same period.
Norfolk, Virginia Judge Jamilah LeCruise also agrees, and in 2024 she ruled that plate-reader data obtained without a search warrant couldn't be used against a defendant in a robbery case.