Documented Incident
Flock Pitched Plan to Turn 350,000 Nexar-Equipped Rideshare and Delivery Cars Into Plate Readers
First reported: August 7, 2026 · 1 source
A Flock Safety presentation prepared for the Georgia Attorney General's office, later shared with 404 Media, outlined a concept to use dashcams made by Nexar — already installed in hundreds of thousands of vehicles — to scan license plates from moving Uber, Lyft and delivery cars. The document described a footprint of roughly 350,000 vehicles that would supplement Flock's fixed pole-mounted cameras and read plates across entire regions. Flock says the Nexar arrangement was never launched. The pitch surfaced as Flock's existing network faces mounting scrutiny, including the LAPD allowing its contract to lapse in July over what it called serious civil liberties and privacy concerns.
Mobile, crowd-sourced plate scanning at civilian scale would expand ALPR coverage well beyond the fixed intersections that local governments currently vote on, raising questions about who authorizes and audits such data collection. The disclosure also illustrates how vendor plans can be revealed through public records long before any deployment.
Key facts
- The plan appeared in a Flock presentation written for the Georgia Attorney General's office and shared with 404 Media; Flock says the Nexar deal never launched.
- Flock reached an $8.4 billion valuation in April and says its stationary cameras cover more than 5,000 U.S. communities.
- The LAPD let its Flock contract expire in July, citing "serious concerns" over civil liberties and privacy.
- CNN documented at least two dozen cases in which officers resigned or were arrested over alleged misuse of Flock's plate system; those are allegations, not established convictions.
- Washington enacted SB 6002 restricting ALPR use, California is considering a data-sharing limit, EPIC urged Congress in May to ban ALPRs, and a federal judge allowed a Fourth Amendment suit over Flock cameras in Norfolk to proceed, citing Carpenter v. United States.
Sources
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- Flock Wanted to Turn 350,000 Uber Drivers Into a Nationwide Plate-Scanning Fleet (Yahoo, August 7, 2026)
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Updated August 10, 2026. Corrections: blockflock@bytebunny.io. See all documented incidents or search the full article archive.