Colorado Woman Repeatedly Pulled Over Due to License Plate Database Error in Police Cameras
By
Olivia Richman
28d ago· 6 min readenNews
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Summary
A 76-year-old Colorado grandmother is repeatedly pulled over by police due to a database error where Flock Safety's automated license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras misread her license plate — confusing the number zero for the letter O or similar character errors. The flawed system triggers false alerts, leading to recurring traffic stops despite her having no actual violations. The article highlights the growing problem of automated policing systems generating false positives due to minor data inaccuracies, and the difficulty citizens face in correcting these errors.
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Yet here she is, getting pulled over again and again, not for speeding, not for running red lights, but because of a one-character error tied to a police database.
That tiny typo has turned her ordinary drives into recurring traffic stops, and she has no easy way to stop it.
A 76-year-old woman in Colorado did not expect her golden years to involve repeated run-ins with law enforcement. Yet here she is, getting pulled over again
