This MS NOW segment investigates Flock Safety’s AI-powered license plate readers, which create searchable digital “fingerprints” of vehicles across roughly 100,000 cameras nationwide. It highlights growing bipartisan backlash – from libertarian-leaning conservatives to progressive activists – over documented cases of police misuse, wrongful stops, and searches tied to immigration enforcement despite Flock’s denials of a direct ICE partnership. The report spotlights Cal Poly student Tobias Halpern, founder of DeFlock SLO, who successfully organized the removal of 17 cameras from his campus, alongside reporting from The Bulwark’s Adrian Carrasquillo on the technology’s spread to at least 75 college campuses.