Police are Using Flock Cameras to Manufacture Probable Cause in Real Time: Video of the First Flock Search Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Court

WATCH WHAT YOU SAY TO COPS ABOUT WHERE YOU’VE BEEN b/c THEY MAY ALREADY KNOW. From [HERE] Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media reveals the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops into interrogations for drivers.

On Friday, 404 Media reported that a federal judge ruled the use of license plate reader systems in the arrest of a woman named Melissa Kyle to be an “unconstitutional warrantless search,” “indiscriminate mass surveillance,” and a violation of the driver’s Fourth Amendment rights. The judge in that case ruled that, even though Kyle had more than 91 pounds of meth in her vehicle, the police had no justifiable reason to search Flock for her license plate and no reason to suspect that her travel as shown on Flock’s system was suspicious. Therefore, all of the evidence from Flock and the search of her vehicle must be thrown out. [MORE and full videos]