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Georgia college student reportedly received a ticket from a cop after a Flock camera flagged her newly purchased vehicle as having no insurance when it did. According to a WSB-TV report, posted by podcast host Kacee Allen, the car has a temporary license plate, but the student presented a valid insurance card. Despite this, the officer reportedly still issued a citation. The incident reportedly happened twice, and the student now has to defend herself in court

According to the news report, the database that Flock cameras rely on was yet to be updated. This caused the system to falsely flag the newly purchased vehicle.

Renee Jones, the student’s mother, said her daughter was doing everything required of her. This included maintaining insurance and carrying proof of coverage.

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[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 day ago

The police officer did the right thing. As we all know, computers are always right /s

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 30 points 1 day ago

They have to. If they start admitted it's making mistakes, there might be a push to take them down. And then we're be sooooo insecure. Even though it doesn't seem like the cameras are being used to actually fight crime.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

Even though it doesn’t seem like the cameras are being used to actually fight crime.

Just in the last week I noticed a huge uptick in news articles about crimes being solved "with the help of" Flock systems. They're trying too little, too late to drive the narrative.

[-] dil@piefed.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Facebook is being flooded, thers a cat in the hat dude locally that is copying the clown trend from a decade ago, every braindead person on there is saying see this is why we need flock cameras and trying to jusitfy more.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

We don’t pay those fuckers to think!

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