Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed an executive order to impose strict limits on automated license plate readers, including Flock Safety cameras, directing the Department of Public Safety to draft binding safeguards for state and state-funded law enforcement use. The order requires most license plate and vehicle data to be deleted within 30 days, bars vendors from selling, sharing, or commercializing Missouri-generated data, restricts ALPR use to legitimate criminal-justice and lifesaving purposes, and establishes accountability measures that trigger criminal referrals, disciplinary action, and possible license revocation for misuse. It also forbids pairing ALPRs with facial-recognition AI and urges local agencies to voluntarily adopt the same practices until lawmakers enact permanent statutes.
The action responds to growing controversy over Flock’s nationwide network - more than 120,000 cameras - whose proponents credit the technology with solving crimes while critics and immigrant-rights groups warn it creates de facto surveillance of law-abiding people. Recent misuse cases helped spur the move: St. Charles County banned Flock after an employee abused data, a Brentwood officer was accused of stalking using system data, and Pulaski County ceased use. Public Safety Director Mark James endorsed guardrails and called for collaboration with local agencies and the legislature to put the order’s framework into effect.
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