{"id":9488,"date":"2026-06-09T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9488"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:01:21","slug":"man-jailed-for-a-month-despite-flock-showing-he-was-5-miles-from-crime-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9488","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed for a month despite Flock showing he was 5 miles from crime scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Ashley Belanger<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nJune 8, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>A San Diego police department is facing a lawsuit after jailing a man for a month based on a Flock camera alert that cops allegedly should have known, based on the timestamp, did not depict the car that they were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, Hugo Parra was arrested on felony charges after San Diego police relied on Flock data and a witness statement to wrongly connect him to an attempted carjacking at gunpoint, the Times of San Diego <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/crime\/2026\/06\/07\/a-flock-license-plate-reader-linked-a-san-diego-man-to-a-violent-crime-he-was-five-miles-away\/\">reported<\/a>. Cops were looking for a red Alfa Romeo car with tinted windows and a man wearing a gray hoodie, and Parra happened to be wearing a white hoodie while riding in a friend&#8217;s car that roughly matched the vehicle description.<\/p>\n<p>Although Flock cameras can capture license plate data, cops did not have even a partial plate to help them verify if the car was involved in a violent crime. But the Flock data cops used to justify the arrest actually showed that Parra was five miles away at the time of the crime, Parra&#8217;s attorney, Alex Coolman, told the Times of San Diego. Rather than arrest him, cops could have used that data, as well as Parra&#8217;s cellphone location data, to corroborate Parra&#8217;s statement that he was innocent, Coolman said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/man-jailed-for-a-month-despite-flock-showing-he-was-5-miles-from-crime-scene\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/man-jailed-for-a-month-despite-flock-showing-he-was-5-miles-from-crime-scene\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/06\/man-jailed-for-a-month-despite-flock-showing-he-was-5-miles-from-crime-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Belanger &bull; June 8, 2026 A San Diego police department is facing a lawsuit after jailing a man for a month based on a Flock camera alert that cops allegedly should have known, based on the timestamp, did not depict the car that they were looking for. Last November, Hugo Parra was arrested on<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=9488\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}