TAKOMA PARK, MD - AUGUST 19: An automatic license plate reader (ALPR) camera monitors traffic at the intersection of Flower and Houston avenues on August 19, 2026 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Takoma Park has contracted with artificial intelligence company Obvio to install and operate more than 20 traffic cameras in the two-square-mile city in the Washington, DC, suburbs. Law enforcement technology company Flock, which runs a nationwide network of automated license plate readers (ALPR), introduced new safety controls last week in an effort to curb scrutiny after a series of recent police officer resignations and arrests for alleged abuses of the company’s tools. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

SILVER SPRING, MD - AUGUST 19: Traffic flows past an Axon brand automatic license plate reader (ALPR) camera in the median of 16th Street near the border of Maryland and the District of Columbia on August 19, 2026 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Law enforcement technology company Flock, which runs a nationwide network of automated license plate readers (ALPR), introduced new safety controls last week in an effort to curb scrutiny after a series of recent police officer resignations and arrests for alleged abuses of the company’s tools. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

TAKOMA PARK, MD - AUGUST 19: An automatic license plate reader (ALPR) camera monitors traffic at the intersection of Flower and Houston avenues on August 19, 2026 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Takoma Park has contracted with artificial intelligence company Obvio to install and operate more than 20 traffic cameras in the two-square-mile city in the Washington, DC, suburbs. Law enforcement technology company Flock, which runs a nationwide network of automated license plate readers (ALPR), introduced new safety controls last week in an effort to curb scrutiny after a series of recent police officer resignations and arrests for alleged abuses of the company’s tools. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

TAKOMA PARK, MD - AUGUST 19: An automatic license plate reader (ALPR) camera monitors traffic at the intersection of Flower and Houston avenues on August 19, 2026 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Takoma Park has contracted with artificial intelligence company Obvio to install and operate more than 20 traffic cameras in the two-square-mile city in the Washington, DC, suburbs. Law enforcement technology company Flock, which runs a nationwide network of automated license plate readers (ALPR), introduced new safety controls last week in an effort to curb scrutiny after a series of recent police officer resignations and arrests for alleged abuses of the company’s tools. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

TAKOMA PARK, MD - AUGUST 19: An automatic license plate reader (ALPR) camera monitors traffic at the intersection of Flower and Houston avenues on August 19, 2026 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Takoma Park has contracted with artificial intelligence company Obvio to install and operate more than 20 traffic cameras in the two-square-mile city in the Washington, DC, suburbs. Law enforcement technology company Flock, which runs a nationwide network of automated license plate readers (ALPR), introduced new safety controls last week in an effort to curb scrutiny after a series of recent police officer resignations and arrests for alleged abuses of the company’s tools. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Former Meta engineer Arturo Bejar returns to court to testify in the Meta trial over social media addiction, at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building & United States Courthouse in Oakland, California, on August 19, 2026. A coalition of US states will seek around $200 billion in damages against Meta, which they accuse of intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive for children, in a landmark trial. (Photo by Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 19: A man carries a child across 16th Street Northwest below a Flock brand automatic license plate reader (ALPR) camera attached to a street light pole along 16th Street Northwest on August 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. Law enforcement technology company Flock, which runs a nationwide network of automated license plate readers (ALPR), introduced new safety controls last week in an effort to curb scrutiny after a series of recent police officer resignations and arrests for alleged abuses of the company’s tools. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 19: A Flock brand automatic license plate reader camera (ALPR) is attached to a utility pole along 16th Street Northwest on August 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. Law enforcement technology company Flock, which runs a nationwide network of automated license plate readers (ALPR), introduced new safety controls last week in an effort to curb scrutiny after a series of recent police officer resignations and arrests for alleged abuses of the company’s tools. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)