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Story from The Mercury News

Startup of the week:

Who they are: Flock, a neighborhood security startup funded by a local accelerator.

What they do: Install solar-powered, license-plate-reading cameras in neighborhoods to track who comes and goes. The idea is to let police use that information as evidence when a crime occurs in the area.

Why it’s cool:  The cameras, which also have backup batteries, already have logged useful evidence in two cases, said Flock founder and CEO Garrett Langley.

On Tuesday night, a man’s lawnmower was stolen from his yard in a neighborhood outside Atlanta that uses Flock technology. The man saw a pickup truck speeding away from his house with his mower in the back. Flock found a truck in its records that had left the neighborhood around the time of the theft, and gave its license plate number to police — hopefully making it easy for them to make an arrest.

Read more on The Mercury News.

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