After the Reporting, the Company Started Mandating Audit Tools It Had Left Optional

Flock Safety has moved to require new guardrails and tracking tools for the departments using its licence plate readers, following sustained scrutiny of how officers were searching the system and how rarely anyone checked.

The word doing the work is 'mandate'. The audit capabilities largely existed. They were available to departments that chose to switch them on, and the documented abuse cases are, in large part, a record of departments that did not. Making them compulsory is an admission that optional oversight of a searchable national movement database was never going to hold. For an independent overview, see EFF, automated licence plate readers.

The report is at WRTV.

A few principles hold across this category. The right device is the one matched to your concern, your case, and your tolerance for downtime, not the newest machine on the floor. Settings, operator experience, and a test spot for higher-risk case types matter more than the brand name on the platform. Ask which wavelength is being used and why it fits your case before any treatment begins.

Outcomes also depend on realistic staging. Most protocols are a planned series rather than a single visit, and final results are best judged weeks to months after the last session as the case remodels. A careful consultation should set that timeline out in plain terms, name the expected recovery, and explain the plan if a side effect appears.

For independent background on this topic, see EFF, automated licence plate readers, and review the full source list below. This is a summary of published reporting, not original reporting, and criminal charges are allegations until a court decides otherwise.