A lawsuit against Norfolk, Virginia, reveals the alarming scale of automated surveillance, showing police cameras from Flock Safety logged one resident 526 times in just four months. This case highlights the rapid, unregulated expansion of mass tracking through a ‘public-private safety network’ of license plate readers (ALPRs). While police and Flock argue the technology is a legitimate crime-fighting tool that only captures data in public, civil liberties advocates contend it constitutes a warrantless, unconstitutional search under the Fourth Amendment. The system creates a vast, searchable database of citizens’ movements, shared among thousands of law enforcement agencies nationwide without their knowledge or suspicion of wrongdoing. This raises profound privacy risks, as the data can be used for purposes far beyond its original intent, including federal immigration enforcement, effectively creating a national surveillance dragnet.