Get the Flock Out of Here!: How Surveillance State Inverts Our Justice System

Every driver is being watched.Across the United States, automated license plate readers record the movements of millions of people who have committed no crime. Their vehicles, locations, routines, and associations enter privately managed databases that police agencies can search across jurisdictions-sometimes without a warrant, meaningful oversight, or even an active investigation.The system is sold as public safety. But what happens when an innocent woman is twice stopped at gunpoint because her vehicle remains falsely flagged? When police search more than 83,000 cameras for someone connected to an abortion investigation? When officers use the network to stalk former partners, monitor activists, or assist immigration enforcement?Get the Flock Out of Here! examines how mass vehicle surveillance transforms everyone into a potential suspect. Zoë Roberts connects investigative reporting, documented abuses, constitutional law, corporate incentives, artificial intelligence, and the steady expansion of surveillance technology to show how the system reverses a foundational principle of American justice: government must prove guilt; citizens should not have to prove their innocence under armed coercion.Public safety matters. So do privacy, due process, and the Fourth Amendment.A free society does not record everyone first and ask questions later.