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Welcome to New Jersey's favorite law podcast. NJ Criminal Podcast is the soapbox and megaphone for legal / lawyer / law-firm podcasting. Join us for NJ law discussions, series, and history. The best place to listen/watch is NJCriminalPodcast.com, where episodes are available by topic, guest, or chronologically. From cannabis legalization to the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, you're invited to listen, share, and rate the show at NJCriminalPodcast.com.
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June 8, 2026
Rutgers Law professor Jessica Frisina and host Meg McCormick Hoerner discuss the Supreme Court's Villareal v Texas ruling and its impact on attorney-client conferral during testimony.
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April 9, 2026
<p>Across New Jersey, small black boxes are appearing on poles at neighborhood entrances, intersections, and commercial corridors. They’re marketed as <strong>Flock Safety</strong> cameras – a “smart” tool to deter crime, recover stolen cars, and help police respond faster.</p><p>Local officials repeat the vendor’s talking points: automatic license plate readers, privacy by design, 30‑day data retention, “we own the data, not Flock.” Residents are told not to worry.</p><p>But when you step away from the marketing and look at internal logs from real deployments – especially the <strong>verified Flock event logs from Dunwoody, Georgia</strong> – a very different picture emerges:</p><ul><li><p>“License plate readers” quietly upgraded to <strong>full live‑view cameras</strong>.</p></li><li><p>Data shared with <strong>over 1,200 external agencies</strong>, contrary to public assurances.</p></li><li><p>Private camera networks labeled <strong>“Do Not Share”</strong> shared anyway.</p></li><li><p><strong>Flock employees in other states</strong> logging in to view cameras aimed at <strong>pools, gyms, preschool hallways, and gymnastics rooms</strong>.</p></li><li><p>Phantom accounts and system users performing privileged actions with incomplete audit trails.</p></li></ul><p>For New Jersey residents, lawyers, journalists, and policymakers, this is not an abstract “other state’s problem.” Flock is actively selling and deploying the same architecture here, under the same narratives.</p><p>This article lays out, in an EEAT‑friendly structure, why this matters and what professionals should be demanding before another camera goes up.</p><p>Flock Safety is best understood as a <strong>data platform</strong>, not just a hardware vendor. The cameras are the sensors; the real power lives in Flock’s cloud software, <strong>FlockOS</strong>.</p><p>Flock’s core devices fall into two broad categories:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs)</strong></p><ul><li><p>Capture high‑resolution images of passing vehicles.</p></li><li><p>Extract plate number, date, time, and GPS coordinates.</p></li><li><p>Tag “vehicle fingerprint” attributes: make, model, color, body style, visible damage, roof racks, bumper stickers.</p></li><li><p>Enable searches like “blue Honda sedan with front‑left damage and a roof rack” without knowing the plate.</p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>Live‑view video cameras (e.g., Condor)</strong></p><ul><li><p>Provide continuous or on‑demand video streams.</p></li><li><p>Deployed at parks, dog parks, trails, intersections, city facilities, HOAs, schools, religious campuses, and private entities.</p></li><li><p>Often support pan‑tilt‑zoom and low‑light capabilities.</p></li></ul></li></ul><p>In practice, many deployments that began as “LPR only” have been <strong>quietly upgraded</strong> to live‑view video without a fresh public debate or contract rewrite. Residents who think they approved a plate scanner are now living under a city‑wide video grid.</p><p>In FlockOS, authorized users can:</p><ul><li><p>Run <strong>exact or partial plate searches</strong> across all cameras they can access.</p></li><li><p>Search by <strong>vehicle fingerprint</strong>: color, make, model, body style, roof racks, dents, decals.</p></li><li><p>Use <strong>association / convoy analysis</strong> to find vehicles that frequently appear together, effectively mapping travel companions and potential “associates.”</p></li><li><p>View <strong>live or recorded video</strong> from any shared live‑view camera (parks, schools, campuses, HOAs, businesses).</p></li></ul><p>Critically, Flock encourages agencies to <strong>share their networks</strong> with each other. A small town’s camera grid can quickly become part of a <strong>regional or national search space</strong>, depending on configuration and vendor‑enabled features.</p><p>This is a qualitatively different system from a single, stand‑alone camera. </p><p><br></p>
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Welcome to New Jersey's favorite law podcast. NJ Criminal Podcast is the soapbox and megaphone for legal / lawyer / law-firm podcasting. Join us for NJ law discussions, series, and history. The best place to listen/watch is NJCriminalPodcast.com, where episodes are available by topic, guest, or chronologically.
From cannabis legalization to the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, you're invited to listen, share, and rate the show at NJCriminalPodcast.com.
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