Georgia student allegedly flagged by Flock camera for not having insurance. She proves the car is insured – the cop still issues a ticket anyway

A mother in Brookhaven, Georgia, has raised concerns about Flock cameras after her daughter was flagged in the system as having no insurance. Renee Jones said her daughter was excited about her new car, but that excitement quickly dissipated when police pulled her over.

Jones claimed that her daughter was told a license plate reader ha byd flagged her car for an issue with the insurance. However, Jones told WSBTV that her daughter was still issued a ticket citation despite showing the cop proof of the vehicle’s insurance. 

The next day, Jones’ daughter was pulled over again for the same issue. “It was the license plate reader that flagged the temporary tag that she had,” Jones claimed. As the car was a new purchase, it seems the license plate readers had yet to update the new information on the vehicle, resulting in Jones’ daughter repeatedly being stopped by police.

The Flock cameras had outdated info

According to the DeFlock project, the state of Georgia has more Flock license plate readers per capita, something which makes many Americans uneasy. In fact, there have already been numerous instances of individuals dismantling the cameras. 

In the case of the Jones family, the issue is that their recent purchase of the vehicle had not updated across the various systems that feed the alert, meaning the Flock cameras had outdated information.

“The issue is, we’re building all this fancy, fascinating technology in front, but the backend databases are still obsolete,” Emory professor Rajiv Garg stated. Although the cameras work in real time, the problem is that the government systems upon which they rely do not. “So we built this system that uses some data set that hasn’t been updated,” Garg said.

The university professor stressed that the issue of outdated information must be fixed before the network of license plate readers is expanded.

This is just another thing to add to the list of genuine concerns people have, one of many flaws people have when it comes to Flock cameras and other similar AI-powered modes of surveillance. One of the other concerns with the new technology is lack of privacy, something which Flock CEO Garrett Langley said Americans would have to “compromise” on.

However, for the Jones family, the mistake has cost them a ticket citation which they still have to battle in court despite having the necessary evidence to prove that the car was insured at the time. “What this does is it creates the burden on us to prove that the insurance was active and valid,” Jones said.