Flock’s CEO was a no-show Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing, where a Florida woman described being sent to jail after police, using a Flock license plate camera, erroneously accused her of being the driver in a fatal car crash.
Lindsey Isaacs said she was sent to solitary confinement for her first three days, forced to wear suicide-watch garments, and driven to the depths of despair — all while knowing she was innocent of the accusations.
She said her black Dodge Durango was captured by a Flock camera several miles from the crash site, and authorities focused on her as the suspect even though her vehicle lacked any collision damage and 911 callers had reported a maroon Durango with a different license plate.
Despite those inconsistencies, she was arrested, denied bond and sent to solitary confinement because of the severity of the charges.
“The cell door was shut, and it was not opened for approximately 86 hours,” she told the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism, tearing up as she recounted the start of a 13-day ordeal in jail.
She was eventually released on bond, and prosecutors dropped the case, instead charging someone else with the accident that claimed three lives.
Senators invited Ms. Isaacs to lead off the hearing, which explored the expansion of license plate readers — with Flock as the most prominent player — and the growing public backlash.