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Jury awards Texas driver $76 over traffic stop based on license plate tracking tip

A federal jury sided with Alek Schott in his lawsuit against Bexar County and its sheriff, awarding him $76—one dollar for each minute he was detained. Schott was pulled over in March 2022 on a pretextual claim of lane drifting, but the real trigger was a WhatsApp tip from a contact with access to automated license plate reader data, who flagged his travel pattern as suspicious.

arstechnica.com · 2026-10-08

Wisconsin deputy tracked veteran's car with Flock cameras over 100 times after wrongful arrest

Napoleon Jones, a Navy veteran, was filming a traffic stop from a private parking lot in Sussex, Wisconsin, when a Waukesha County deputy turned around and detained him instead, later pulling him from his car and arresting him for 'resisting and obstructing.' Jones was released after five hours with no charges, and an internal memo confirmed the stop was illegal, but records show his vehicle was subsequently searched via Flock license-plate-reading cameras more than 100 times.

reason.com · 2026-09-05