A Florida woman who spent 13 days in jail after being wrongfully arrested in connection with a deadly hit-and-run crash last year when police cited evidence from a Flock camera is speaking out about her monthslong legal drama.
“The whole time I didn’t think I was going to live,” Lindsey Isaacs said, recalling her time behind bars in a recent interview with People published Thursday.
She told the outlet, “I had multiple women coming up to me talking about my charges and telling me that they were going to knock my teeth down my throat or choke me while I slept.”
Isaacs went into further detail about her story to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September, where she told lawmakers she was driving her vehicle to a store in Davenport on Oct. 4, 2025, the same day a crash killed three people.
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However, hours later, state troopers and deputies from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office arrived at Isaacs’ home looking for her vehicle. Despite her SUV being in what she described as “immaculate condition,” they told Isaacs there was damage consistent with the collision.
“I woke up frantic. My parents were at my door, multiple troopers were outside, and an impound truck was taking my Dodge Durango away right in front of me,” Isaacs told committee members.
She later learned that a Flock camera, an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance technology used by law enforcement agencies, flagged her vehicle miles from the scene of the crime.
Isaacs said, “That piece of information became part of an investigation that ultimately led to my arrest.”
“I had no idea there was a crash behind me,” she told People, “but since I passed that camera during that time frame, those police officers then used that Flock technology to jail me.”
A warrant was eventually issued for her arrest in April, and she was ordered to surrender herself at the Volusia County Jail, where she spent time behind bars on serious charges, including three days in solitary confinement.
“I was facing life in prison,” she told People. “It wasn’t anything small. My life was on the line.”
She was released after her criminal attorney provided the court with a picture of her undamaged SUV, and the state declined to prosecute her case in May. A woman who was driving a maroon Dodge Durango was charged in connection with the crash instead.
A spokesperson for Flock told JS on Thursday that Isaacs’ experience was “unacceptable,” but “her experience appears to have been the result of human errors in judgment unrelated to Flock, which led to an unconscionably lengthy period of detention.”
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“Ms. Isaacs has filed a complaint against the police department in which she clearly states that our cameras established she was not, in fact, at the crime scene,” the statement read.
Isaacs’ interview with People comes amid mixed feelings over the technology being implemented in communities.
The technology has even united some Democrats and Republicans to take action against the company, which made headlines over instances of members of law enforcement abusing it.
A recent poll by Reuters/Ipsos shows a majority of Americans ages 55 and up and Republicans of all ages support the use of Flock technologies, while younger Americans were the least likely to favor it. Only 21% of respondents 18 to 34 were in support of Flock cameras.
Following the growing backlash, Flock CEO Garrett Langley told an audience at TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday that “if a customer knowingly broke the law, we would fire them immediately.”
“Most of the debate is nuanced into ‘what if two officers out of 50 were caught?’ Today, we haven’t fired any customers, but it’s not off the table in the case of some pretty drastic law-abiding issue,” Langley said.