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Lawsuits, policy moves, and developments across the surveillance world that quietly impact our lives.
Some of it is our reporting, some of it is context from elsewhere. Either way, if it changes how surveillance works in practice, it lands here.
September 4, 2026·2 min read
The Minneapolis Police Department is buying mobile license plate readers, the kind mounted on squad cars, and paying for them with forfeiture money. An internal MPD email from a commander in the Administrative Services D
August 29, 2026·3 min read
Minnesota Statute 13.824 requires every police department running an automated license plate reader to arrange an independent audit every two years. The results go to the commissioner of administration and the Legislativ
August 23, 2026·3 min read
Minnesota law requires an independent audit of every police license plate reader program every two years. The audit exists to create a public record: results go to the Commissioner of Administration and the Legislative C
August 22, 2026·2 min read
Two searches of St. Louis Park Police Department's Flock Safety cameras, run in October 2025 by the North Missouri Drug Task Force through Brookfield MO PD, each reached 25,263 networks. A normal nationwide lookup at the
July 27, 2026·2 min read
An April 2026 email from a Flock Safety representative to Oshkosh, Wisconsin police leadership lays out three separate vehicle counts. The public sees the smallest one.
July 19, 2026·4 min read
City payment records released through MuckRock show a $1,228,000 purchase of Flock's drone-as-first-responder hardware and software. San Francisco's surveillance technology inventory does not list it.
May 15, 2026·1 min read
FBI UCR data shows Alabama's ratio of law enforcement employees per 1,000 residents climbed sharply from roughly 3.5 in 2023 to approximately 4.4 in 2025 — the highest point in at least four decades of recorded data. The
May 11, 2026·1 min read
New litigation challenges use of LexisNexis Accurint data — the same pipeline feeding PSDEX — in deportation enforcement. The suit argues the data sharing violates Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless searche
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