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,…