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# One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

173 points · 72 comments

[Full discussion](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852065>)

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Category: [Safety & Privacy](<https://hacksnap.live/?category=safety-privacy>)

## Skept-o-meter & Hotness

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The supplied discussion focuses less on Flock's accuracy than on police and prosecutorial failure to verify exculpatory facts, while disagreeing over whether automated surveillance tools should be restricted because they can encourage such failures\.

## The brief

Jezebel reports that Lindsey Isaacs, a 23\-year\-old Palm Beach resident, was arrested and jailed for 13 days after a Flock ALPR camera recorded her black Dodge Durango near a fatal crash\. Witnesses described a maroon Durango, and her car had no damage, but she was charged with eight felonies including three vehicular homicide counts and spent 86 hours in solitary confinement\. Charges were dropped in May 2026, another woman was later arrested for the same crash, and Isaacs testified before Congress and has a pending civil lawsuit\.

- A Flock ALPR camera recorded Isaacs' car and plate a few miles from a fatal crash around the time of the incident, and police used that data to connect her to the collision\.
- Witnesses said the vehicle involved was a maroon Dodge Durango, while Isaacs' Durango was black and had no damage consistent with a fatal crash\.
- Despite the lack of physical evidence, her car was impounded and a warrant was issued about seven months later; she was held 13 days, including 86 consecutive hours in solitary confinement\.
- Isaacs was released after her attorney showed a judge photos of her undamaged vehicle; Florida dropped all charges in May 2026, and another woman was later arrested in the same case\.
- Isaacs testified before the U\.S\. Senate that surveillance data can become part of an investigation affecting a real person, and she has a pending civil lawsuit against Florida Highway Patrol troopers\.

## Discussion themes

### Flock did not make the arrest

A central dispute is whether Flock 'put' Isaacs in jail: commenters note the camera supplied a plate/location sighting, while police and prosecutors allegedly ignored exculpatory facts such as the wrong vehicle color and no damage\.

Sources: [Comment 49852383](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852383>) · [Comment 49852637](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852637>) · [Comment 49853141](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853141>) · [Comment 49853356](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853356>)

### Automation can still matter

A counterargument is that automated tools can create overconfidence and erode verification, so the technology's role is not irrelevant even if humans made the final decisions\.

Sources: [Comment 49852995](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852995>) · [Comment 49853587](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853587>) · [Comment 49853268](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853268>) · [Comment 49853730](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853730>)

### Could happen with any evidence source

Some argue the case would be ordinary police incompetence if the evidence had come from a dashcam or eyewitness, so Flock is not uniquely causal\.

Sources: [Comment 49853141](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853141>) · [Comment 49852474](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852474>)

### Tools make abuse easier

Others respond that police and prosecutors have long abused discretion, and giving them easier surveillance tools makes abuse more likely; limiting tools is still reasonable\.

Sources: [Comment 49852406](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852406>) · [Comment 49853268](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853268>)

### Accountability should stay with officials

A recurring accountability framing is that blaming the tool can let negligent officials escape responsibility, because the institution that arrests and jails is responsible for the outcome\.

Sources: [Comment 49852474](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852474>) · [Comment 49853487](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853487>) · [Comment 49853619](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853619>)

### Senate hearing context

A commenter points to a recent Senate hearing where Isaacs testified alongside Benn Jordan and EFF's Chad Marlow\.

Sources: [Comment 49852942](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852942>)

## Sources & coverage

AI-generated summary · 2026\-09\-26T12:01:12\.975422\+00:00

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