A Colorado man has been repeatedly flagged by Flock license plate cameras as having an active warrant—despite never having one. The automated surveillance system incorrectly added him to its hot list, triggering potential traffic stops every time his vehicle passed one of the company's cameras deployed across the state.

Flock Safety provides license plate recognition cameras to law enforcement agencies nationwide, cross-referencing vehicles against warrant databases. Data entry errors involving characters that look similar—like the letter "O" and the number "0"—appear to have caused this man's vehicle to be mistakenly linked to someone with actual warrants.

The police chief confirmed they have now removed the man from their Flock hot list. This case highlights how algorithmic surveillance tools can perpetuate errors at scale, with innocent civilians facing repeated police encounters due to faulty data matching. The incident adds to growing concerns about accuracy and accountability in automated license plate reader systems that law enforcement increasingly relies on.