By The Daily Caller (U.S.) | Created at 2026-09-24 21:37:06 | Updated at 2026-09-24 23:57:21
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Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube introduced legislation Thursday to bar the federal government from buying, operating, or accessing Flock Safety cameras without a judicial warrant, the Daily Caller has learned.
Steube’s bill, dubbed the Facilitating Liberty and Accountability for Flock Observations (FLAFO) Act, aims to crack down on warrantless surveillance using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) such as Flock Safety cameras. (RELATED: INGERSOLL: You Want Us To Support Flock? Please Explain What Happened To Katie Huss)
The bill would also make local law enforcement grants from the Department of Justice contingent on agencies adopting similar privacy regulations, according to the bill text obtained exclusively by the Caller.
“The Fourth Amendment is not optional,” Steube told the Caller. “Americans should not be tracked everywhere they drive without a warrant.”
“Flock Safety’s surveillance network is too expansive, and we have seen several instances across the country where this technology is too easily abused,” Steube added. “The FLAFO Act limits warrantless surveillance by ALPR systems because the government has no business tracking law-abiding Americans.”
THIS is the problem with Flock cameras!!
A Sarasota police officer was just arrested and fired following an investigation into the alleged misuse of Flock and other law enforcement databases.
When you give the government the ability to track people, someone WILL abuse it.
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Automated license plate readers were originally used by law enforcement to identify vehicles of interest using locally collected data. ALPR critics argue that the technology has evolved beyond small-scale aggregation into a mass surveillance mechanism with access to potentially sensitive information.
Some ALPR systems, such as Flock Safety, also use artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze vehicle data, enabling more detailed tracking. In some cases, this technology has been misused or outright faulty, leading to false arrests and abuse of power. (RELATED: DUKE: We Already Know Who The Criminals Are — So Why Are Conservatives Embracing Mass Surveillance?)
In one instance, a Florida woman named Lindsey Isaacs was wrongfully accused and jailed based on data gathered by Flock Safety cameras. The cameras falsely connected her vehicle to a deadly car crash, resulting in her being jailed for over two weeks and placed in solitary confinement for three days.
“I was terrified,” Isaacs said in an emotional testimony before the Senate on Wednesday. “I was facing the possibility of spending the rest of my life in prison for a crash I knew that I had not been involved in.”
“At my lowest point, I didn’t want to be alive.”
