Ark audit finds federally linked license-plate searches continue after Tiburon’s safeguards
Thirty-four outside police agencies ran 8,542 searches of Tiburon’s license-plate cameras for federally entangled investigations in the seven months after the town rewrote its plate-reader policy in December and began requiring monthly audits, a new Ark audit has found.
More than 4,800 came on or after Feb. 3, when Police Chief Michelle Jean told The Ark the town had worked with vendor Flock Safety “to allow external searches only for valid reasons” — language the town repeated in a public statement March 9. Every one of the 34 agencies ran at least one of those searches. Twenty-six still have access to the cameras, and eight of those ran searches flagged by The Ark as federally entangled as recently as July.
The Kings County Sheriff’s Office ran 14 on July 2 alone, each naming a Homeland Security Investigations special agent in the search-reason field. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies ran nine on July 8 logged as “Assist FBI re: cyber crime” and seven more on July 15 and 16 as “assist fbi taskforce for suspect vehicles in area.”
Tiburon police also allowed a federally funded intelligence center to keep searching the town’s cameras explicitly on behalf of federal agents and out-of-state police for 105 days after The Ark warned the town the searches were barred under California Senate Bill 34, which since 2016 has made it illegal to share plate-reader data with out-of-state, federal and private entities.
Three other organizations did not appear to qualify to receive the data at all, yet they ran 478 searches of Tiburon’s cameras between January and July.
When The Ark asked about those agencies Aug. 6, Police Department officials did not answer, but all three disappeared from Tiburon’s transparency portal on the Flock website within 48 hours. When The Ark inquired about their removal Aug. 10 — seeking records on who had authorized their access and whether required monthly audits had ever identified the agencies — the department again did not answer.
The next day, however, it quietly uploaded a revised license-plate-reader policy to the town website that redefined who qualifies as a share partner, stripped the language requiring written access requests and eliminated the internal audit methodology established Dec. 4.
The Ark audit also found that about a quarter of the more than 2 million searches of Tiburon’s cameras over the seven months included no case number, leaving nothing to tie them to an investigation.
Chief Michelle Jean did not respond to any of the 41 questions The Ark submitted in four emails Aug. 6, 10, 12 and 28. Capt. Jarrod Yee answered one. They have long established a policy with The Ark that questions must come by email and that they will not conduct interviews by phone or in person. Since the Flock cameras replaced the former Motorola Vigilant network in July 2025, the department and other town officials have generally refused to answer the the paper’s questions about the system.
The new findings come amid intensifying bipartisan backlash over mass surveillance, data sharing, immigration enforcement, police misuse, weak oversight and Flock’s credibility.
The Ark reported in February that nine California agencies had run more than 475 searches of Tiburon’s Flock cameras citing federal agencies between May and August 2025, prompting Jean to acknowledge that 23 share partners had conducted potentially illegal searches, including on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. SB 54 of 2018, the state’s sanctuary law, generally prohibits California law-enforcement agencies from using state or local resources to assist with federal immigration enforcement.
A deeper July-December 2025 audit published in March turned up 41 agencies and 16,029 such searches — 18 more agencies than the department had disclosed after its own limited keyword audit of the same period.
Jean said the newspaper’s public-records requests in mid-2025 “prompted us to reevaluate our policies, procedures and our data shares.” The department rewrote its plate-reader policy in December to require an audit of at least five searches a month and told The Ark in February that it made the search-reason restrictions and had sent letters to 21 agencies giving them 30 days to explain their searches or lose access.
Counting every search
With the assistance of Anthropic’s artificial-intelligence system Claude, The Ark’s audit was built from the data log for every outside search of Tiburon’s cameras from January through July, obtained under the California Public Records Act. The audit also drew on periodic reviews of the transparency portals on the town’s and Flock Safety’s websites. A search was counted as federally entangled if its reason field named a federal agency or program — among them the FBI; ICE; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Customs and Border Protection; the Drug Enforcement Administration; Homeland Security Investigations; the U.S. Marshals Service; the Postal Inspection Service; the IRS; Interpol; the Joint Terrorism Task Force; and the U.S. Park Police — or named the federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program or Riverside County’s Special Investigations Bureau, a unit with embedded federal agents.
Every figure was recomputed from the records themselves, and the reporting and the judgments about what the records show are the newspaper’s. The logs are public records, and the analysis can be reproduced from them.
The data logs show outside agencies searched license-plate data from the town’s 10 cameras more than 2 million times in the first seven months of this year, about once every nine seconds. The pace climbed through the period. Outside agencies ran about 1.2 million searches in the last six months of 2025 and more than 1.7 million in the first six months of this year, up about 40%. July was higher than any month since the town switched to Flock: 336,156 searches, one every eight seconds.
Tiburon’s share access has also expanded sharply. The town shared with 132 agencies in July 2025, when it transitioned from Motorola. That figure stood at 212 on Sept. 17, ranging from Del Norte County at the Oregon border to Calexico on the Mexican border. By contrast, neighboring agencies slashed their sharing to regional partners in recent months amid the controversies surrounding Flock and nationwide reports of unauthorized searches and system abuses. The Marin County Sheriff’s Office cut access from 291 agencies to 21 and Mill Valley from 256 to six. Belvedere cut access from more than 200 agencies to seven.
Three organizations never qualified
Three organizations added by Tiburon since moving to Flock appear not to meet the state law’s definition of a public agency. The San Pasqual Tribal Police Department, whose officers are cross-sworn as federal officers under the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ran 386 searches from Jan. 2 through July 29. The University of San Francisco, a private school whose officers are not sworn peace officers, ran 56 from March 13 — four days after Tiburon issued a public statement about its new authorization, auditing and search-restriction policies — through July 27.
The University of the Pacific, also private, ran 36 searches from Jan. 8 through July 31. Its first 21 were all filed as a traffic infraction or city planning, and five of the 15 it ran in July were filed the same way. The town’s portal lists traffic enforcement and non-law-enforcement purposes as prohibited uses.
When The Ark asked about the organizations, the department shut off their access and then changed its policies.
The rewrite stripped the written request
The Ark sent Jean 11 questions on Aug. 10. A revised policy was generated at 2:22 p.m. Aug. 11, according to the file’s properties.
A comparison of the two versions shows what came out. At the time Tiburon had approved access for each of the three agencies, the policy required an outside agency to put its request in writing — naming itself, the person asking and the purpose — for the captain, Yee, to approve and keep on file. The Ark’s Aug. 10 email included a Public Records Act request for those documents.
Under the new policy posted Aug. 11, an agency asks inside the Flock system and the approval is stored there — no writing, no stated purpose, no signed approval, nothing on file.
On Sept. 2, Administrative and Emergency Services Coordinator Laurie Nilsen informed The Ark that the department had “no responsive records” related to the three organizations.
The old policy also set the audit method. It required a random sample of at least five searches a month, drawn from both department employees and outside agencies, tested against authorized use and written up as a memo to the chief listing any errors.
The new policy requires a monthly audit “documented and forwarded to the chief.” It does not say how many searches to pull, where to pull them from or what to test them against.
Gone as well is the limit on sharing to “public agencies,” the term state law uses, replaced by “other law-enforcement agencies.”
The three organizations the department had just removed — two private university police forces and a tribal police department — do not appear to be public agencies. However, all three would appear to be law-enforcement agencies.
Nick Hidalgo, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, said the rewrite changes nothing.
“A law-enforcement agency’s policy amendments do not shield it from its legal obligations under California constitutional or statutory law,” he wrote. “SB 34’s requirements, including its sharing prohibition, apply to all California law-enforcement agencies that operate (automated license-plate readers), regardless of whether the agency recognizes those obligations in its own policy.”
The rewrite added a case-number rule
The policy revision did add new requirements. It cites the California Values Act, SB 54, by name, including ICE and Customs and Border Protection; changes audits from something that “should” be done regularly to something that “shall” be done monthly; requires that alerts be verified before an officer acts; and requires that every outside query carry an offense type and a case number.
The logs Tiburon released show asterisks in place of the searching officer’s name, the plate and the case number. However, cells that were empty remained empty, and the case-number field is blank in 579,319 rows of the January-July logs, which predate that requirement. In 73,404 of those, the officer typed what appears to be a case number into the search-reason field instead, leaving 505,915 searches with no case number anywhere in the record.
For the nearly 1.5 million searches with a redacted case number, it’s unknown whether the numbers entered are real, whether they match an actual investigation or whether they were entered simply to satisfy the field. The Ark asked Jean Aug. 28 whether anyone checks that a case number entered by an outside agency matches a real case when the department performs an audit. She did not answer.
By default, Flock strips the officer’s name and the plate from the audit logs it gives host agencies, substituting an alphanumeric identifier and telling them to contact the searching agency to match it. However, California law requires an agency to keep a record of every search that includes the date and time, the plate queried, the username of the person who ran it and the agency that person works for. Dave Maass, director of investigations at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The Ark in March that Flock’s change put Tiburon, Belvedere, the Marin Sheriff’s Office and other California departments immediately out of compliance with SB 34.
The department’s August policy revision further requires the monthly audit to document improper queries by outside agencies as well as by department members. The audits the town posts online cover its own officers only.
Jean told The Ark in February that the town would not be “publishing our external search audits online,” calling that “consistent with other agencies” and giving no further reason.
The Ark requested the audits themselves Aug. 28, for the 12 months ending July 31. The town’s response, dated Sept. 16 and sent Sept. 17, says it has responsive records and has delivered all of them. What it delivered was the 13 monthly search-log exports from Flock — the raw records a town audit is supposed to sample. No town audit of those records was included.
The response also says the town has no records of written outside-agency data requests or captain approvals for any month from August 2025 through July, when the policy requirement was still in effect and the town was rapidly expanding its share partnerships.
Assistant Town Manager and Town Clerk Lea Dilena, who signed the response, and Town Manager Greg Chanis were both out of the office and could not be reached for comment by The Ark’s press deadline.
The town was warned, and it waited 105 days
The Ark had previously warned Tiburon about a fourth agency, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, a federally funded entity in San Francisco whose analysts run database searches on behalf of other police agencies.
The paper sent the center’s 2025 searches Feb. 19 to Jean, Chanis, Mayor Jon Welner, Town Attorney Ben Stock and Councilmember Holli Thier in a list of 19 agencies the department’s internal audit had not flagged.
The center ran 42,860 searches of Tiburon’s cameras before its access ended in June. Nearly half carried no case number. In 106 of those searches, the log explicitly names the federal agent who wanted the lookup: DEA agents in Spokane, Seattle and Sacramento, IRS agents in Seattle and Oakland and deputy U.S. marshals in San Francisco.
The center also searched Tiburon’s cameras on behalf of police outside California, which state law bars as well. On March 25, the day The Ark published its second investigation, it ran one search logged as “DV REQ BY TOLEDO PD,” a domestic-violence inquiry, and 14 more that afternoon in a 10-minute span for an officer at the Beaverton Police Department in Oregon. Departments named Toledo operate in Ohio and Oregon; the log does not say which asked.
The Ark gave Belvedere the same finding about the intelligence center three weeks after it gave Tiburon’s. An Ark audit found the center had run 56 federal-purpose searches of Belvedere’s cameras in the latter half of 2025. Police Chief Jason Wu defended the agency March 9 as a state-grant program that explicitly states it complies with California plate-data laws. The Ark showed the search records to him March 11, and he cut its access.
In Tiburon, records show the searches stopped June 4, 105 days after The Ark’s February notice and about 10 weeks after the paper named it in print.
Two sheriff’s offices ran most of it
Federally entangled searches are identified by reading the search reason entered by officers in the system’s free-text search field and looking for keywords indicating federal, out-of-state or other violating searches. State law requires that each search record carry the purpose of the inquiry, and the free-text field until December was the only place in Flock’s system to enter one.
That month, Flock added drop-down menus of preapproved search reasons drawn from the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System crime categories. The typed-in field became optional, and its use fell off in the spring. In January, 81.3% of searches of Tiburon’s data included a typed reason. The rate held above 78% through March, dropped to 64.2% in April and was 57.4% in July.
Tiburon’s own officers stopped first, almost immediately after The Ark’s February and March articles. Forty-one of their 54 searches carried a typed reason in January; from April through August, two of 490 did — April, June, July and August were all 0%. The August count comes from the current monthly internal audit the town now has posted online. It’s unclear whether Tiburon’s use of the field has become an undocumented department policy, but the broad change in behavior is making audits less effective: Where there is no text, a keyword has nothing to find.
For the entries still using the field, two agencies accounted for 87% of the entangled searches, with the Riverside County and Orange County sheriff’s offices running 7,455 of them. Nearly all cite one of two things: Riverside County’s Special Investigations Bureau, which has embedded federal agents, in 4,531 searches, and the federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program, administered under the DEA, in Orange County’s 2,896. Neither office ran a search of Tiburon’s cameras after March 9.
Corona police ran 237 more, the third-highest total, and were still running them in July. The department still had system access at The Ark’s press time.
Eight of the 34 agencies running entangled searches during The Ark’s audit period have come off Tiburon’s list: the two sheriff’s offices and the regional intelligence center, plus the Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Riverside city police departments, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office and the California Department of Corrections.
The other 26 still had access as of Sept. 17: 20 city police departments, four county sheriff’s offices and two district attorneys. Among those were two agencies Jean wrote to in January, Pasadena and La Habra, which had been removed as violators and were back searching by spring.
Police and critics disagree on what counts
What constitutes an entanglement has its own gray areas. In the only question answered by Tiburon police for this story, Yee wrote Aug. 12 that local agencies “may conduct (automated license-plate reader) queries relating to investigations involving the U.S. Park Police, the U.S. Marshals Service … USPS, and others, when the local agency is involved.”
The department has its own example. Tiburon’s logs for October 2025 include two searches by one of its own officers citing a U.S. Postal Service investigation, which the town released unredacted by mistake in the external audit logs. Jean told The Ark in February the searches were part of an active mail-theft case and that “just because a reason for search includes a ‘federal’ agency does not necessarily indicate specific data is being shared illegally.”
The distinction Yee and Jean draw matters. The state law bars selling, sharing or transferring plate data to anything that is not a California public agency. It does not bar the agency that collected the data from using it to investigate a crime in its own town, and a Tiburon officer working a local mail theft is not necessarily sharing data.
What the law leaves open is what happens next — whether handing the case to federal prosecutors, or working it jointly with a federal agency, transfers the data the statute protects. The Ark put that question to the town in August and it was not answered.
“There is no ‘joint investigation exception’ in SB 34, nor in the California (attorney general’s) informational bulletin,” Hidalgo said of Yee’s answer. “Even if a search is run by a state officer, SB 34 prohibits California law-enforcement agencies from sharing (automated license-plate reader) information with federal law-enforcement agencies.”
By that measure, the reasoning given by Yee and Jean would appear to cover the Riverside County and Orange County sheriff’s offices. Both are California agencies, and between them they ran 87% of the searches citing federal agencies.
However, the reason fields complicate it. Some 7,427 of the 7,455 searches name Riverside County’s Special Investigations Bureau, a unit with embedded federal agents, or the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program the DEA administers. In those there is no moment when the data sits with a California agency and not with a federal one. The team is the same, and the search is run for its case.
Tiburon’s own two searches, the mail-theft lookups citing the Postal Service, carry a complication of their own. The officer cited “San Mateo” in the reason field, when the San Mateo Police Department had no sharing agreement with Tiburon, and cited “MCPD AOA” — assist other agency. The department has not answered The Ark’s questions about either search, including whether they were run at the request of an agency without its own authorized access.
Tiburon never negotiated a contract
Tiburon was not the only entity rewriting its rules in August. Flock announced Aug. 13 that it would cut default retention to seven days from 30, require a case number on every law-enforcement search by year’s end and make its misuse-detection tool mandatory. In announcing the safeguards, it said customers own their data.
The retention change applies to new customers; existing ones keep the periods they have. Tiburon’s portal still listed 30 days on Sept. 17, four times what the company now gives a new department. Jean did not respond to whether Tiburon will shorten its retention policy to match.
Flock rewrote its terms in February. The new version deleted the company's indemnification obligations, removed an exception that had let customers recover beyond the contract's liability cap for gross negligence, eliminated a section requiring that customer images used to train Flock's systems be de-identified and withheld from third parties, and moved every dispute to Georgia law and binding arbitration. The company revised the terms again Aug. 21. All four of the February changes remain.
The American Civil Liberties Union, reviewing the terms in April, found that Flock holds a perpetual license to use customer data to “support and improve” its services, that the license survives the end of a contract and that the company sets “the method, timing, format and medium” by which a customer gets its own data back.
That’s the reason a Central Marin official gave for leaving. Pat Ravasio, a Corte Madera councilmember and alternate on the police council of the Central Marin Police Authority, told The Ark she supports switching services “after reading how Flock is known to change its terms and conditions mid contract.”
For Tiburon, there is no negotiated contract. Two records requests produced an equipment agreement and a link to terms the company maintains on its own website and can change at any time. The town produced no copy of those terms as they stood when it signed, and Flock keeps the change log behind an account login.
The cameras have led to local arrests
The cameras do two different things. For hot lists, an officer enters a plate already tied to a crime and the system alerts an agency when a camera sees it — a stolen car, a fleeing suspect, an abducted child. That’s the system the Town Council approved in 2009.
“The only interaction we’ll have (with the database) on a day-to-day basis is when the system alerts us to a license plate when a vehicle is wanted in connection with a felony,” then-Chief Michael Cronin said at the time. “Frankly, we don’t expect a lot of those.”
In a retrospective search, an officer types in a plate and retrieves every sighting across the network. The ACLU sees those uses differently.
On hot-list alerts, Hidalgo told The Ark in March, “That kind of use I don’t think would require a warrant.” A retrospective search, he said, can “paint a shockingly and disturbingly accurate picture of our lives” and should require the same legal hurdle — a probable-cause warrant signed by a judge — as other long-term technological tracking, like affixing a GPS to a vehicle or requesting cellphone location data.
In Sacramento, SB 1013 would have barred generic search reasons and required a warrant to query archived plate data. It passed the Senate, but Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, held it before it reached a floor vote. The bill died when the session ended Aug. 31.
Tiburon’s portal shows what that may cost the town: In the 30 days before Sept. 17, its officers logged 22 search sessions, or those that would have required a warrant under SB 1013. The cameras produced 682 hot-list hits.
The cameras have helped make arrests in Tiburon. Officers identified a gray Ford Explorer on the town’s plate readers this month after several people reported credit and debit cards stolen from their cars at Blackie’s Pasture and found the vehicle at a Strawberry motel the next morning. Two men were booked into Marin County Jail on suspicion of theft, fraud and conspiracy.
The longer record offers less evidence the cameras have changed crime or solve rates.
About 90% of crime in Tiburon is property crime, and from 2011 through 2023 the department cleared 59, or 5.6% of them. From 1998 through 2010 it cleared 126, or 8.3%. The national rate was 13.6% in 2023.
Among those, the town has averaged 13.5 burglaries a year since the original Motorola cameras were installed and recorded 14 in 2024, while its all-time lows, seven and eight, came in 2009 and 2010 — years with almost no camera coverage, because the system did not go live until that November. Police cleared no home burglaries at all in 2023 or 2024 until an arrest that December.
The cameras also misread, and the alerts they generate send officers to real cars. Roseville police reviewed the 1,427 alerts their Flock system produced over two years and found 71% were misreads. Los Angeles police wrongly flagged 161 vehicles in two months. In Toledo, Ohio, a camera read the “7” on a resident’s plate as a “2.” That resident was mauled by a police dog.
Flock says cameras accurately capture about 93% of license plates and scan more than 20 billion plates a month. At that rate, the company’s own figures imply roughly 1.4 billion inaccurate reads a month.
The council has not taken it up
The local discussion about Flock has never reached a council agenda, and the two members who answered The Ark’s questions about their role in oversight left most of them unanswered.
Vice Mayor Isaac Nikfar, who is in line to become mayor in December, doubted Aug. 10 that Tiburon’s cameras could have been searched as often as the records show.
“300k searches is an outlandish number,” he said. “It’s likely hundreds of searches with some variable that is mistakenly used as a multiplier creating exponential growth in the number of searches.”
The Ark provided him with a link to the January-June records, where the June file alone contains 304,049 rows, one per search. Nikfar wrote “No further comment,” then responded four more times — without addressing the figures — to condition comment on The Ark agreeing to meet with the chief. The Ark asked Nikfar to facilitate that meeting, with him and Chanis also present to answer questions. Nikfar declined and left the rest of the questions unanswered.
Among them: whether the department can verify that more than 200 organizations are using residents’ data lawfully, whether the five-search monthly sample — in effect at the time and since removed — is adequate oversight and what threshold of resident contact would put the program on a council agenda.
Councilmember Alice Fredericks, who is seeking a seventh term on the Town Council in the Nov. 3 election, told The Ark in August that the council should not take up the program until the new council is seated. She wrote on Nextdoor in early July that the department’s policies “are compliant with state law SB 34 and include audits for illegal use,” and referred to “potential missed illegal searches as audits are perfected.”
She twice said the question belonged in Tiburon’s contract negotiations with Flock. There is no negotiated contract.
Fredericks also pointed Aug. 10 to a letter: “Because the town has received a citizen letter that can be interpreted as a litigation threat, a public council meeting would not be productive at this time,” she wrote. She said the reading was her own, not the town attorney’s.
The letter was written by Del Mar resident Colin Crawford, who asked councilmembers April 13 and July 12 to hold a public discussion on the town’s camera policies. The letter indicated he intended to pursue the matter “through every available civic channel,” with no mention of legal ones.
Fredericks did not answer the nine questions sent Aug. 10, including what contract negotiations she was describing, on what basis she stated the town’s policies are compliant and whether she supports putting the program on an agenda.
In her candidate interview last month, she said that police officials “have told us that anyone who has questions can just ask and they will be glad to answer.” Police have not responded to dozens of questions about the system posed by The Ark in the past 13 months.
Four other candidates are running for three seats, including incumbent Councilmember Jack Ryan, and they have taken different positions. Kathleen Defever, a former federal public defender, went furthest, saying she wants the data encrypted and wants officers and outside agencies to need a warrant or subpoena to reach it. Faris Jafar said he was not sure how “allowing our data sent across 250 partners” serves Tiburon. Chuck Hornbrook said the town must ensure the technology is not used “for nefarious reasons that the community does not support.”
Ryan said the cameras’ investigative benefits, as the public sees them, “outweigh the vulnerabilities of the system, in my opinion,” and that he would drop Flock for a more secure vendor if one existed.
Neighbors are pulling back
The controversy has reached state and federal politics. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a freeze on Texas state funding for the cameras Aug. 27. In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis directed the state transportation department to revoke permits for every plate reader on state highways and give agencies 30 days to remove them.
U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Eric Burlison, R-Mo., introduced a bill Sept. 2 to bar federal money from agencies like Tiburon and Belvedere that use the cameras; cosponsors include U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., of Fremont.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who chairs the Judiciary subcommitt
ee on crime and counterterrorism, launched an inquiry into Flock Aug. 26 and requested records on how the company collects, retains and protects driver data.
Next door, Belvedere’s City Council took the cameras up on its own Sept. 14. Councilmember Jane Cooper, saying she had been “doing an awful lot of reading” and that “we’ve heard from other residents too,” asked that Flock be placed on a future agenda, and she named the complication.
“I know we’re tied in with Tiburon, which is an aspect that we’d have to figure out,” she said.
Councilmember Peter Mark said Wu “has made the statement very clear before that no federal agency has access to our Flock cameras” and added, “I think other communities have learned that that’s not actually the case.”
Mayor Sally Wilkinson directed staff to ask Wu to fold the subject into the Police Department’s next quarterly report.
The Central Marin Police Authority, which polices Corte Madera, Larkspur and San Anselmo, separately determined it will not renew its Flock contract when it expires in October. Corte Madera Councilmember Eli Beckman announced the decision in a video posted Aug. 14, the day after the authority’s police council met.
“We just wanted to be responsive to concerns in the community about how this data could potentially be accessed by other agencies across the country that might not share our values or our commitment to people’s privacy,” he said.
Beckman told The Ark on Aug. 17 that newer tools can flag a car connected to a crime “without ever storing or transmitting people’s license-plate data.”
“Ultimately,” Beckman added, “Flock as a company lost our community’s trust.”
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