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Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Dave Maass · June 25, 2026

EFF reports that Flock-enabled ALPR systems can compare plate scans against hotlists that include immigrant-targeting records used on behalf of ICE. The article explains how local police use real-time Flock alerts and why hotlist governance is central to immigration-surveillance concerns.

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