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Instead of “good old-fashioned police work”—like searching 30 feet from a blood trail—the state relied on massive, retroactive digital dragnets.

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#surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader
February 11, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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The plot of Minority Report soars over Garrett Langley's head as he attempts to lower expectations for Flock's broken evidence authentication.

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Langley Speaks on the Burden of Truth and Minority Report
Flock CEO Garrett Langley praises Minority Report's precrime program, conflates arrest with conviction, and deploys an evidence authentication system that wouldn't survive a first-year cross-examinati...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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About an hour later, Wayne PD receives the phone call about multiple gunshots, roughly eight miles from the casino. Read more �‘‰ https://lttr.ai/Anc9K #surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader
February 10, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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The agencies successfully exploited information asymmetry to misrepresent compliance—even the ACLU and University of Iowa accepted heavily redacted portal logs as legitimate disclosure and moved on.

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#iowa #surveillance #aclu
February 9, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Predictable denials, dubious legal assertions, and—remarkably—the first release of actual logs in Iowa.

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#iowa #surveillance #aclu
February 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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10 agencies claimed their search logs were confidential, 10 claimed their audit logs were confidential, and 2 nonsensically claimed their transparency portals were confidential. Read more �‘‰ https://lttr.ai/Anc95 #iowa #surveillance #aclu
February 7, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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ACLU and University of Iowa Conduct Case Study in Institutional Contempt �¸ https://lttr.ai/Anc94 #iowa #surveillance #aclu
February 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Maybe it doesn’t matter — we know that Flock’s outsourced data labeling platform classifies photos and screams, but that same analysis also revealed that it lets our foreign friends train another feature: ReID.

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#surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
February 5, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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An oft-repeated claim is that Flock cameras don’t detect people, and when they do it’s only basic movement detection, and totally not facial detection.

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#surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
February 4, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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By mid-March, police apply for a search warrant for all location data from every Android phone in a two kilometer (1.25 miles) radius around the location where Frank’s body was found.

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#surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader
February 3, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Flock's new CISO co-founded a nonprofit with a Bishop Fox board member. Now Bishop Fox is conducting Flock's 'independent' security audit. Sure.
Red Team, Red Flags: Flock's Bishop Fox Engagement Creates Compliance Nightmare
Flock Safety hired Bishop Fox for adversarial security testing. Under CJIS rules, successful testing would trigger mandatory incident reporting—making competent auditing a compliance violation.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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Some of these are marketed features; like alerts when video signals are lost, or when persons cross a boundary defined on Flock’s PTZ cameras.

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#surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
February 2, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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In 2024, Illinois passed the Illinois TRUST Act (5 ILCS 805), which prohibits Illinois police from sharing data for civil immigration purposes. Read more �‘‰ https://lttr.ai/AndEQ #surveillance #security #cjis
February 1, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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Vector State: License Plates for Pedestrians: https://lttr.ai/AncQR

#surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReader
January 31, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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As long as Flock does not actively prevent this type of information-laundering, the company’s statements about data ownership, sharing control, and compliance with state law are entirely meaningless.

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#surveillance #security #cjis
January 30, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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The Data-Sharing Shell Game: Flock, RISS, and the Federal Surveillance Backdoor: https://lttr.ai/AncQ9

#surveillance #security #cjis
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Evansville, IN says it did not authorize the release of Flock audit logs to haveibeenflocked.com. It also says it maintains complete control over the data.

Pick one.

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Evansville Police Department's Flock camera searches posted online
More than 80,000 searches of Flock Safety cameras by Evansville police were posted online. The FBI said the data put officers at risk.
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January 28, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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The file, but not the reporting on the prosecutor’s statements, shows Rob received a six-second call from Northern Illinois area code at 11:03pm, while Rob and Marco were still in the area where Frank’s body was found.

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#surveillance #murder
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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The family, who had already been looking for Frank, hand police a cloned phone, his Google password, the name of a suspect—let’s call him Marco—and information about text messages that were suspicious at best.

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#surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader
January 27, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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Despite Illinois' TRUST Act ban on immigration data sharing, ICE maintains backdoor access to Flock's database through RISS and local agencies. Read more �‘‰ https://lttr.ai/AncQ7 #surveillance #security #cjis
January 26, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Too Much, Too Late: A Digital Dragnet for a Homicide �¸ https://lttr.ai/AncMu #surveillance #murder #LicensePlateReader #FlockSafety #RoundLakeBeach #Illinois #ALPR
January 24, 2026 at 2:54 PM