US Courts Split on Flock License Plate Surveillance Rulings

A federal court in Oklahoma ruled that warrantless searches of Flock Safety's ALPR database violate the Fourth Amendment, suppressing evidence in a drug case. A day later, a Santa Clara County court dismissed a California constitutional challenge to San Jose's camera network, saying drivers have no privacy on public roads; the EFF will appeal.

• Flock Safety runs about 120,000 cameras in 6,000 communities across 49 states
• The network logs roughly 20 billion vehicle passes per month
• Oklahoma judge called the ALPR database search indiscriminate mass surveillance
• Santa Clara judge said camera density does not change the constitutional calculus