Flock's CEO Says its ALPRs Don't Do Video After Repeatedly Announcing They Can
After the Los Angeles Police Department allowed its contract with Flock to expire, the surveillance company’s CEO, Garrett Langley, told local news that people don’t understand how its technology works, and that its automated license plate readers (ALPR) only take a “static picture” of a car. “The technology is really simple,” he told ABC7. It's a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate.
- ▪After the Los Angeles Police Department allowed its contract with Flock to expire, the surveillance company’s CEO, Garrett Langley, told local news that people don’t understand how its technology works, and that its automated license plate
- ▪“The technology is really simple,” he told ABC7.
- ▪It's a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate.
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After the Los Angeles Police Department allowed its contract with Flock to expire, the surveillance company’s CEO, Garrett Langley, told local news that people don’t understand how its technology works, and that its automated license plate readers (ALPR) only take a “static picture” of a car. “The technology is really simple,” he told ABC7. "A car drives by, we take a picture. It's a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate. That's what the technology is—it's actually not that complicated, it's pretty simple." But for the last year, Flock has been marketing a new upgrade that allows “all” of its ALPRs to record live video.
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