Flock Unveils Changes after Washington Post Report on Police Misuse of its Vast Camera Network

The country's most prominent seller of automated license-plate readers said Thursday it will enact major changes in hopes of more proactively preventing abuse by police officers.

Flock, the maker of a vast roadside camera network that maps cars' movements into a database searchable by law enforcement, said it would for the first time start requiring officers to label every search with a criminal case number and automatically review all searches for "abnormal activity;" this was previously a voluntary feature that the company said was used by about a third of its 7,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide.

Flock also said it would reduce the default setting for how long license-plate data is stored, from 30 days to seven, and give police departments more control over how their data is shared with other agencies.

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