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AI Cameras Are Everywhere — and People Are Paying the Price for Their Mistakes

Business Insider · Nicole Einbinder · March 9, 2026

Business Insider reviewed police records, lawsuits, and local news and found at least a dozen cases where Flock cameras misread plates, leading to innocent people being stopped at gunpoint, jailed, or mauled by police dogs. Key cases include a Toledo man attacked by a K-9 after a misread '7' as '2' and a Tennessee family held at gunpoint with a 3-year-old. Flock refuses to publish its misread rate.

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