Police in Columbine Valley, Colorado, leveraged a Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) system to wrongly accuse a Denver woman of theft. The system generated investigative leads based on her vehicle’s presence near a crime scene, leading law enforcement to treat her as a primary suspect without further corroboration. The burden of proof was shifted to the accused, who was forced to compile her own digital evidence, including phone data and dashcam footage, to establish an alibi and prove her innocence. After she presented this exculpatory evidence, the police chief dismissed the charges but offered no apology for the false accusation. The case exemplifies the dangers of outsourcing police work to private surveillance networks, highlighting significant risks to due process, individual privacy, and the presumption of innocence when automated systems are used to generate suspects.