BATON ROUGE - Flock cameras are license plate readers used to help identify the make, model, and color of a vehicle. Along with the day and time the vehicle passed that camera.

You can find many of these cameras around the capital city, as both the Baton Rouge Police Department and East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office have used them to solve crimes.

But the cameras also leave many people with privacy concerns, as they say the cameras collect and store the data for a certain amount of time.

"Every movement over time, whether you're going to the doctor, the church, whether you're going to a party, whatever you're going to do. And they are digitally tracking your every movement and then storing it in a database, and that is a serious problem," Founder of Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group, Chris Alexander said.

This week, Flock Safety announced new changes to strengthen the company's privacy and security. Currently, license plate readers retain data for 30 days. Flock is recommending the number drop to 7 days.

"As we looked at the data, what we saw is that about 90% of investigative searches happen within 7 days, so will it solve less crime? It will, and I will encourage local officials to still make decisions that they think match their local needs," Flock Safety CEO and Founder Garrett Langley said.

Flock is also requiring all of its law enforcement customers to adopt audit assistance, which flags any abnormal activity for administrative review. In addition, case codes will be mandatory for all law enforcement searches.

We asked Baton Rouge Police Chief TJ Morse about the new changes.

"We already do have audit tools, and we monitor how officers use this very important technology," Chief Morse said.

Jay Stanley, Privacy Expert with the ACLU, says these changes made by Flock Safety are very minor steps that in some cases are a small step in the right direction.

"Flock is feeling the heat, and I think that these kind of hand-wavy changes are an attempt to make some of those changes go away, but the heat should not go away, because they don't really get to the heart of what this system does," Stanley said.