Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior

The ACLU report, published October 26, centers on Grace Knowles, a woman in her 20s who took a road trip through Oregon, Texas, and Louisiana in September 2025. On her way to Florida, she was pulled over by an officer who claimed she had spent too much time driving in the left lane. He eventually identified himself as a special agent with the FBI, and told her that her license plate had been flagged for suspicious travel patterns. He showed her a heat map of the U.S. with circles marking where she had been, and a photo of her plate. Security researchers disclosed a network of over 335,000 Flock ALPR cameras across the United States. A federal jury in Texas sided with a man who sued over what his attorneys described as an unconstitutional traffic stop scheme enabled by AI-powered license plate readers. Wired obtained files describing Flock's next-generation AI system, which