South Lyon City Council votes to deactivate Flock cameras
Flock cameras will no longer be used in South Lyon after the city council voted Monday night to remove them.
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Flock cameras will no longer be used in South Lyon after the city council voted Monday night to remove them.
As the Eastpointe City Council voted to terminate its contract with Flock cameras, officials say two police department employees were under investigation for allegedly misusing the technology.
A 46-year-old man is in custody after a woman reported indecent exposure in Waterford Township, Michigan, on Thursday, police said.
A grade-school student was almost struck by a passing vehicle that failed to stop at a bus stop Wednesday afternoon in Bedford Township.
Flock cameras in Michigan and Ohio helped track a possible location of a suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman in Wyandotte, police said.
Kent County deputies have used Flock cameras to recover stolen vehicles, close cases that had stalled and find missing people, the sheriff's office said.
The debate around the use of Flock cameras continues to spread throughout Southeast Michigan.
Livingston County Sheriff Michael Murphy says about six have been damaged, costing his office about $5,000 so far.
The Monroe County Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday night to end the use of the Flock license plate reader camera system in areas where county funds were used for the service.
As several law enforcement agencies continue to use the technology, lawmakers in the Michigan House have introduced bipartisan legislation to establish statewide guardrails for how the data is used and shared. It's an initiative backed by the ACLU of Michigan.
Waterford police are pushing back against what they call misinformation and online distortion surrounding their use of the technology.
The website HaveIBeenFlocked has compiled a database of 4.6 million license plate records that have appeared in roughly 242 million Flock searches.
A suspect was taken into custody in the aftermath of a shooting on Friday morning in Sterling Heights.
Pompano Beach resident Nancy Dello Stritto, who is almost 77 years old, opened her mail to find a license plate reading "SQZ A55."
Charges were filed over nearly $10,000 in vandalism damage to license plate readers in Oakland County.
Automated license plate reader technology is used by law enforcement agencies in communities across the U.S. — but the systems sometimes get things wrong.
The Taylor Police Department is rolling out high-tech cameras equipped with license plate readers, which are already helping them in significant investigations.
