One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

一条 Flock 摄像头数据将这位无辜女性送入监狱长达 13 天

Police didn’t care that Lindsey Isaacs’ car was the wrong color, and wasn’t damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data. 警方根本不在乎 Lindsey Isaacs 的车颜色不对，也没有任何受损痕迹。仅仅因为 Flock 的数据，他们还是逮捕了她。

In the months since Flock cameras have helped put an easily recognized and hated name to the broader threat of a deeply repressive technological surveillance state–Darth Vader activist performance art and all–I’ve been waiting for a story to come along that would truly crystalize the stakes involved here. 在过去几个月里，Flock 摄像头让人们对深度压迫性技术监控国家这一更广泛的威胁有了清晰且令人厌恶的认知——包括那些“达斯·维达”式的抗议行为艺术——我一直在等待一个能真正凸显其中利害关系的故事出现。

Flock cameras, and the tech they now culturally represent, automated license plate readers (ALPRs), are increasingly hated in bipartisan fashion, but it hasn’t felt like there’s been that one news story that could succinctly demonstrate for the average person exactly how dangerous the technology can be for personal liberty. Until now, that is. Flock 摄像头及其所代表的技术——自动车牌识别系统（ALPR）——正日益受到两党人士的共同抵制，但此前似乎一直缺乏一个能向普通民众直观展示该技术对个人自由有多大威胁的新闻报道。直到现在。

Because what else would you call the account of a woman who was arrested by incompetent police based on nothing more than a single Flock camera piece of data, and held in jail for 13 days (partially in solitary confinement) until they realized it was definitely the wrong person? You couldn’t ask for a more egregious demonstration of how this technology is being abused by police who need no additional help in trampling over American civil liberties. 因为如果一个女人仅仅因为一条 Flock 摄像头数据就被无能的警察逮捕，并被关押了 13 天（部分时间处于单独监禁），直到警方意识到抓错了人，你还能怎么形容这件事呢？这无疑是警察滥用该技术践踏美国公民自由的最恶劣案例，而这些警察本身就已经不需要任何“额外帮助”来破坏公民权利了。

The woman in question is named Lindsey Isaacs. She’s a 23-year-old resident of Palm Beach, Florida. One morning in October of 2025, she woke up at 2 a.m. to find that state troopers were outside her apartment, and a tow truck was currently in the process of confiscating her car, a black Dodge Durango. 这位女性名叫 Lindsey Isaacs，是佛罗里达州棕榈滩的一名 23 岁居民。2025 年 10 月的一个凌晨 2 点，她醒来时发现州警正守在她的公寓外，拖车正在扣押她的车——一辆黑色的道奇杜兰戈（Dodge Durango）。

The police had reportedly used images and data captured by a Flock ALPR camera to connect Isaacs and her car to a deadly car accident that had happened one day earlier, which had resulted in the loss of three lives. According to witnesses at the scene, the deadly collision had been perpetrated by a Dodge Durango. The Flock camera, meanwhile, had recorded Isaacs’ car and its license plate several miles away from the site of the accident, sometime around the time of the incident. 据报道，警方利用 Flock ALPR 摄像头捕捉到的图像和数据，将 Isaacs 和她的车与一天前发生的一起导致三人死亡的致命车祸联系了起来。据现场目击者称，这起致命碰撞是由一辆道奇杜兰戈造成的。而 Flock 摄像头记录到 Isaacs 的车及其车牌时，地点距离事故现场有几英里远，时间也大致在事故发生前后。

“They said, ‘We have your plate on a Flock camera, and your car has damage consistent with a collision,’” said Isaacs this week, now testifying before Congress. “And I said, ‘Where’s the damage? You’ve got the wrong person.’” “他们说，‘我们在 Flock 摄像头上拍到了你的车牌，而且你的车有符合碰撞特征的损坏，’”本周在国会作证时，Isaacs 说道。“我说，‘损坏在哪儿？你们抓错人了。’”

Isaacs was right. It should have taken only a cursory examination of her car to see that hey, this vehicle really didn’t look like one that had been part of an accident 24 hours earlier that killed three people! And oh, wait, do we think it’s relevant that the eyewitnesses were saying that it had been a maroon Durango that had been involved in the incident, and Isaacs’ car was instead black? Isaacs 是对的。只需对她的车进行简单的检查就能看出，这辆车看起来根本不像是在 24 小时前参与过导致三人死亡的事故！而且，目击者称涉事车辆是一辆栗色的杜兰戈，而 Isaacs 的车是黑色的，难道这不重要吗？

Nevertheless, her car was instead entered as evidence into a case and impounded, and Florida Highway Patrol issued a warrant for her arrest on April 17, 2026, some SEVEN MONTHS LATER. This, despite the fact that there appears to have been zero physical evidence actually linking Isaacs to the scene of the crime besides a Flock camera sighting indicating she had been nearby that day, and this despite the fact that her car was not actually damaged, something that police had seven months to investigate and ascertain. 尽管如此，她的车还是被作为证据扣押了。七个月后的 2026 年 4 月 17 日，佛罗里达州公路巡警对她发出了逮捕令。尽管除了 Flock 摄像头显示她当天在附近外，似乎没有任何实质性证据将她与犯罪现场联系起来，而且她的车根本没有受损——警方本有七个月的时间去调查和核实这一点。

She would spend the next two weeks in a maximum security jail housing, including 86 consecutive hours that she spent in solitary confinement. She told the U.S. Senate in her testimony, meanwhile, that correctional officers told her she was being put in solitary because of “the severity of the charges.” You know, to the crime she did not commit. 接下来的两周，她被关押在最高安全级别的监狱中，其中包括连续 86 小时的单独监禁。她在向美国参议院作证时表示，狱警告诉她，将她单独监禁是因为“指控的严重性”。也就是针对她根本没有犯下的罪行。

“I was terrified,” Isaacs understandably said to U.S. legislators this week. “I was facing the possibility of spending the rest of my life in prison for a crash that I knew I had not been involved in. I did not know if I would ever get out of jail. At my lowest point, I didn’t want to be alive.” “我当时非常害怕，”Isaacs 本周对美国立法者说道，这完全可以理解。“我面临着余生都要在监狱中度过的可能，而那场车祸我根本没有参与。我不知道自己是否还能走出监狱。在我最绝望的时候，我甚至不想活了。”

Yeah! I can understand a person feeling completely hopeless and utterly abandoned by not only an uncaring but actively misanthropic justice system after being arrested and charged with eight felonies, including three counts of vehicular homicide, when you know that you had nothing to do with it! 没错！我完全能理解一个人在被逮捕并被控八项重罪（包括三项车辆杀人罪）后，那种彻底绝望和被抛弃的感觉——尤其是当你明知自己与此毫无关系，却被一个不仅冷漠而且充满敌意的司法系统对待时！

According to reporting from The Center Square, after the two weeks she spent in jail, Isaacs only managed to be released “when her attorney was able to present photos to the judge of her possessed vehicle–which, contrary to the claims of the troopers who possessed it, showed no damage.” After that, she was finally granted bond and released from jail, and in May 2026 the state of Florida dropped all charges against Lindsey Isaacs. 据《The Center Square》报道，在监狱待了两周后，Isaacs 最终得以获释，是因为“她的律师向法官出示了她被扣押车辆的照片——照片显示车辆没有任何损坏，这与扣押车辆的警察的说法截然相反。”此后，她终于获得保释并出狱。2026 年 5 月，佛罗里达州撤销了对 Lindsey Isaacs 的所有指控。