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- **Posted:** 2026-08-04T20:04:04.000+00:00
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The Navajo Nation is partnering with Flock Safety to deploy automated licence-plate readers across its 27,000-square-mile territory in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

The cameras photograph passing vehicles and record licence plates, vehicle characteristics, locations, dates and times. Investigators can search the system or receive alerts when a vehicle may be connected to an active case.

Navajo officials say the technology could help locate missing people and identify vehicles connected to child abductions, homicides, drug trafficking and other serious crimes across a region where officers may travel more than 100 miles to respond.

“This license plate reader technology will change how the Navajo Nation addresses crime,” Law and Order Committee Chair Eugenia Charles-Newton said in 2025. “It’s important our people feel safe and that we’re not burning out our first responders.”

The committee voted 3–0 to accept an initial report on the technology and advance the proposal for funding consideration.

Community reactions have been mixed. Some Navajo citizens have expressed concern about privacy, with one Gallup-area resident calling the cameras "terrifying."

Flock says Navajo agencies will own and control their data, searches will require documented reasons, activity will be audited and records will be deleted after 30 days by default.

However, the number and locations of cameras, cost, deployment timeline and full data-sharing rules have not been publicly disclosed.

The release also concluded with a warning:

“Tampering with or damaging tangible property of the Navajo Nation is a criminal offense under Title 17 of the Navajo Nation Code.”

Across the United States, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has documented Flock's system being used to track protesters, target Romani people with discriminatory searches, and surveil women seeking reproductive healthcare — including a Texas case in which sheriff's deputies searched for the car of a woman who had an abortion.

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What are your thoughts on the Navajo Nation’s decision to deploy Flock cameras?

Sources: Navajo Nation Council; Flock Safety; Electronic Frontier Foundation

#Technology | #NavajoNation

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