In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police

The Sacramento suburb of Roseville, California, has been using Flock Safety's AI-powered cameras since 2021. Andri Tambunan for BI In the summer of 2024, a police officer in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville, California, called a man to discuss a persistent problem with his license plate. The city's AI-powered license plate readers, made by the tech startup Flock Safety, had repeatedly misread the man's plate. At least six times, Flock had sent alerts to the Roseville Police Department, ide...