Flock license plate readers turn Chicago suburbs into ground zero for bitter fight over surveillance

William Copp was given broad access to Flock Safety’s powerful license-plate reader system as a part-time police officer in Prairie Grove, a small village about an hour northwest of Chicago. Flock’s cameras track every driver that passes them, logging billions of license-plate scans in data…

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