Intelligence & Surveillance

1+ hour, 23+ min ago   (834+ words) That is the public-buy-in test Phoenix never put on a local ballot before flipping its cameras back on. The cameras extract cash from residents, commuters, and visitors and transfer it to a camera vendor, a legion of process servers, the…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (138+ words) As some Democrats move to ban federal use of its license plate cameras, the surveillance company has hired some of the party’s biggest fundraisers. Flock Safety, the surveillance company whose network of cameras lets police search records of drivers’ movements…...

11+ hour, 58+ min ago   (220+ words) Lexington Herald Leader Kentucky drivers can now check whether their license plates have been searched in a Flock Safety database used by law enforcement agencies. Online database “Have I Been Flocked?” compiles data from government agencies across the country, including…...

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (198+ words) The Tempe City Council voted Thursday night to ban police from using automatic license plate readers, with a few exceptions. The council heard from about a dozen people before voting. Most, like Eric Fowler, spoke in favor of the ban....

3+ hour, 45+ min ago   (777+ words) Activists in costume took their fight against a police surveillance company to the doorstep of a major tech conference. Protesters hold a “FLOCK = ICE” banner outside TechCrunch Disrupt. One demonstrator carries a megaphone, while another wears a cardboard camera headpiece…...

5+ hour, 22+ min ago   (292+ words) Re “Why local police agencies must ban pretextual stops” (Oct. 12): Mitchelle Woodson cites a telling fact — SDPD was 23% more likely to search Black drivers than White drivers, yet found contraband less often. As a retired Sheriff’s Office commander, I see…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago   (216+ words) Marietta Daily Journal A Flock camera stands along the roadside near Kennedy Park as traffic passes by in Fall River, Mass., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. - Anastasia E. Lennon - The New Bedford Light The eight members of Smyrna’s new Public Safety Technology Task…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (739+ words) Maybe the best thing to come from the controversy over the growing use and abuse of Flock cameras by government is that the public is finally waking up to the threats against their privacy and civil rights that these types…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1683+ words) Volume 63, No. 1 Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake Equally important and interesting, he tells how he overcame political and organizational obstacles in what became his passion: to demonstrate that offenders could be successfully prosecuted, a process once thought to be…...

4+ hour, 41+ min ago   (154+ words) Published 12:45 pm Friday, October 16, 2026 Reid admitted he voted for FLOCK cameras. “I got it wrong.” He addressed multiple examples of misuse across the County, including officers searching for romantic interests. “The roadside is littered with male and female officers who…...