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Flock Camera Data Led to Innocent Woman's 13-Day Jail Stay

Original: One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

Lindsey Isaacs of Palm Beach, Florida spent 13 days in jail after she was wrongly charged with vehicular homicide based on a single Flock automated license plate camera reading that misidentified her car. She has since filed a lawsuit, arguing the arrest shows how errors in automated surveillance data can put innocent people behind bars with little scrutiny.

Why now: Her lawsuit and the case's implications for the rapid spread of automated license plate surveillance have renewed debate over relying on camera data for arrests.

Lindsey IsaacsFlock SafetyPalm BeachFlorida

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