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InsightLPR video breakdown: covert license plate cameras sharing data with the FBI
A LexisNexis demo video, posted publicly and since hidden by the company, walks through how police can use commercial license plate data from tow trucks and hidden cameras to build a "pattern of life" on any vehicle, tie it to 100 million local police records, and run geofence-style searches with no warrant. We break down the full video, minute by minute.
September 4, 2026·12 min read
St. Louis Park's license plate cameras were pulled into nationwide immigration searches, and a Texas abortion case
The city's own Flock Safety records show outside agencies searched its cameras for immigration enforcement 2,637 times, and once for a woman who had an abortion. St. Louis Park says it has since blocked such searches, and points to serious cases the cameras helped solve when justifying their use.
July 8, 2026·14 min read
The Accurint Files: Inside the Private Database Feeding ICE
More than 2,100 American law enforcement agencies automatically upload their internal records to a private LexisNexis database that ICE pays $22.1 million to search. The contracts are public. The pipeline has barely been a national story.
May 15, 2026·External