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

When a car passes an automated license plate reader (ALPR), its plate is captured and instantly compared against a list of vehicles that police are actively looking for or that police have identified for real-time surveillance. These are called “hotlists,” and EFF has learned that one used by agencies across the country targets immigrants on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Agencies using Flock Safety ALPR systems commonly allow the plates their cameras collect to be compared

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Published: 25 June 2026
Source: EFF Deeplinks
Category: Field notes
Topics: Privacy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (25 June 2026), “Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?,” evidence record 1688, https://ethics.ai/record/1688 (originally published by EFF Deeplinks).

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