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🔗 Krishnamoorthi, Pettersen Lead 35 Lawmakers Demanding Answers on ICE's Backdoor Access to Flock Surveillance Network Federal Government
🔗 Reps. Pettersen, Krishnamoorthi Lead Effort Demanding Answers on ICE's Backdoor Access to License Plate Surveillance Network - by Ark Valley Voice Staff Federal Government
🔗 Flock camera data at BNA accessed by ICE agents TN
Nashville
Oversharing
🔗 Akron's Flock cameras used for non-local immigration enforcement OH
Akron
🔗 Documents: Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system GA
Savannah
Abuse
Oversharing
More coverage:
🔗 Lexington PD makes Flock searches at request of ICE investigators KY
Lexington
🔗 'I was surprised': Holyoke police chief didn't know ICE-related queries were tapping city's plate reader data MA
Holyoke
Oversharing
Restricted Sharing
🔗 Police chief confirms he cut off camera access for agencies with ICE agreements, and asks a city commission to help set the rules for what comes next VA
Alexandria
Restricted Sharing
🔗 Grand Rapids mayor responds to 'accountability forum' held by local anti-ICE groups MI
Grand Rapids
🔗 Border Report Live: Immigrant advocacy group rallies against Flock cameras Pushback
🔗 Fridley City Council meeting debates concerns about access to Flock Safety camera data MN
Fridley
Pushback
Restricted Sharing
🔗 Flock furor: Police cameras in New Bedford and South Coast MA
New Bedford
Abuse
Pushback
"In January, Ofc. William Mouyos entered "immigration (civil/administrative)" in the search reason field. It's unclear if a case number was redacted from that cell.
Mouyos is routinely in the top 10 of officers with the most Flock searches this year. He worked in a unit tasked with clamping down on scooters and the crimes tied to them, including shootings.
The Light previously reported that Mouyos faced a 15-day suspension for excessive force and failing to activate his body camera during a scooter chase last year that ended in him punching a juvenile."
Notes: New Bedford PD "does not permit the sharing of LPR data gathered by the town or its contractors/subcontractors for purpose of federal immigration enforcement, these federal immigration agencies include Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CPB)." But it happened anyway.
🔗 Michigan Democrats call on MDOT to end Border Patrol camera agreement MI
Statewide
🔗 Columbus Police used Flock to watch ICE as it arrested hundreds in Ohio OH
Columbus
🔗 Judge orders bond hearing for Seymour man held by ICE after Flock camera traffic stop - The Republic News IN
North Vernon
🔗 Beavercreek Flock cameras used for immigration, unspecified reasons OH
Beavercreek
Flockaganda
🔗 Police searched Twin Cities license plate cameras for immigration enforcement during ICE surge MN
Minneapolis
"The Mille Lacs County Sheriff's Office, which collaborates with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), searched the camera data in at least half a dozen Twin Cities suburbs. Police in North Carolina and Indiana also searched cameras in Fridley for immigration purposes. So did the U.S. Postal Inspection Service."
🔗 Columbus reviews officer's Flock license plate searches tied to 'ICE' entry OH
Columbus
🔗 Columbus officer searched Flock for 'ICE' six times in 10 minutes OH
Columbus
🔗 Columbus audit examines whether Flock camera data was used for immigration enforcement OH
Columbus
Oversharing
Restricted Sharing
🔗 Exclusive: The Next Frontier of the Deportation Wars: College Campuses Pushback
🔗 See why the MetroParks changed its policy on its automated license plate reader database OH
Dayton
Oversharing
Restricted Sharing
🔗 Pleasanton PD admits feds previously had access to license plate reader data CA
Pleasanton
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Columbus audit links thousands of Flock data searches to immigration OH
Columbus
Oversharing
🔗 Newly released records show nearly 2,000 'immigration' and 'ICE' searches on Cleveland's Flock cameras OH
Cleveland
Oversharing
Paywall
🔗 Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants? Analysis
EFF
"Buried in the Flock Safety administrative interface, there is a drop-down menu where agencies select which NCIC topics to subscribe to. If Immigration Violator is selected, the local agency will receive an alert that a vehicle ICE is looking for has been sighted."
🔗 GRPD email: 'Deportation warrant' search of Flock cameras was likely ATF MI
Grand Rapids
Illegal
Video
Notes: Once again the ATF ignores local laws to search Flock on behalf of ICE.Copies at:
🔗 Use of Kettering Flock cameras for immigration violates prior police pledge OH
Kettering
Oversharing
"A change by Kettering police to no longer allow its Flock automatic license plate reader system to be used for immigration purposes comes four years after the police chief told city councilmembers that the cameras wouldn't be used for immigration."
🔗 Flock surveillance cameras at the center of Columbus City Council ICE enforcement debate OH
Columbus
Pushback
🔗 Columbus council demands Flock camera guardrails over immigration use OH
Columbus
Oversharing
Paywall
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🔗 Shaker council gets update on new Flock data blocks for immigration searches OH
Shaker
Oversharing
🔗 Cleveland Flock Surveillance Network Used for Immigration Searches Despite Safeguards OH
Cleveland
Oversharing
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🔗 Are Chandler's surveillance cameras helping ICE track immigrants? AZ
Chandler
🔗 Hundreds of immigration-related searches ran through Shaker Heights' Flock surveillance camera system OH
Shaker Heights
Oversharing
🔗 Federal Immigration Officials Made 279 Queries into Bend's Flock Safety Data in its First Three Weeks OR
Bend
Oversharing
🔗 Cooperation with ICE common among Mass. law enforcement, new report finds MA
"The report also found other types of information sharing, including automatic license place readers, notably from Georgia-based security company Flock Safety, that store information on a federal cloud database accessible by ICE that can be used to detain individuals."
🔗 Florida's Wildlife Cops Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE Oversharing
"The documents showed that, beyond the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission police, the Texas Department of Public Safety, Grant County Indiana Sheriff's Office, Lake County Indiana police, Sarasota County Florida police, Brevard County Florida Sheriff's Office, Nebraska State Patrol, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Fort Pierce Florida Police Department, and Mississippi Department of Public Safety had all done immigration-related Flock searches in January."
Notes: The documents referenced are from Ball State University in Indiana. These agencies in Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Nebraska and Tennessee are running nationwide searches on behalf of ice, not even just local.
🔗 How AI licence plate readers became a flashpoint in US immigration battles Paywall
🔗 Border Patrol, DHS accessed Woodburn Flock camera data, city audit shows OR
Woodburn
Oversharing
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🔗 ICE Can Reportedly Access Flock Surveillance Cameras — Now Americans Are Destroying Them Analysis
Oversharing
Vandalism
🔗 Border Patrol searched Albany data, despite assurances to the contrary — nonprofit NY
Albany
Paywall
🔗 ICE is using school cameras for immigration crackdowns Audio
🔗 Hidden in Plain Sight: Surveillance at the Arizona Border AZ
Copies at:
🔗 Woodside wants to know about federal agencies tapping into its surveillance cameras CA
Woodside
Oversharing
Pushback
🔗 San Jose Can Protect Immigrants by Ending Flock Surveillance System CA
San Jose
EFF
🔗 Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump's immigration crackdown Oversharing
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🔗 Judge rules to release evidence in Border Patrol shooting of Marimar Martinez IL
Chicago
Notes: DHS used Chicago's Flock cameras in an attempt to falsely portray Marimar Martinez as a domestic terrorist.Copies at:
🔗 Out-of-state police are using Connecticut license plate camera data for immigration enforcement CT
Windsor
Oversharing
🔗 Mountain View police say feds make 'unauthorized' use of license plate reader CA
Mountain View
Oversharing
🔗 Feds Slip Into Mountain View's License-Plate Network, City Audit Finds CA
Mountain View
Oversharing
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🔗 Minneapolis under surveillance during ICE surge MN
Minneapolis
🔗 DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens MN
Minneapolis
"DHS has also been exploring partnerships with license-plate reader companies like Flock Safety to expand their tracking capabilities."
🔗 ICE has expanded its mass surveillance efforts. Online activists are fighting back. Activism
🔗 Pat Wall of DSA Speaks on Flock Safety Cameras IN
Bloomington
Pushback
🔗 Hundreds rally in Kalamazoo to protest ICE actions in Minnesota MI
Kalamazoo
Pushback
🔗 Are Tri-Cities Flock traffic cameras being misused by ICE, others? WA
Kennewick
Walla Walla
Yakima
🔗 Santa Cruz cuts Flock cameras over data sharing concerns with agencies like ICE CA
Fresno
🔗 Town advances review of Flock surveillance cameras WY
Jackson
🔗 Documents reveal scope of LMPD investigation into immigration-related Flock searches KY
Louisville
Video
🔗 A DEA agent used Louisville's Flock camera database for immigration searches, against LMPD policy KY
Louisville
"Following an investigation, Louisville Metro police determined the agent was able to access the database because an LMPD detective shared his password because they were working on narcotics cases together."
🔗 Louisville police commanders entangled in internal investigation of license plate reader searches KY
Louisville
Illegal
🔗 "Alien." "Ice pick-up." "immigration violation." WA
Spokane
🔗 New reports emerge on Border Patrol use of Flock cameras IL
Oak Park
Oversharing
🔗 Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns TX
Scope Creep
"After finding nothing in Schott's car, Babb said 'nine times out of 10, this is what happens.'"
🔗 Border Patrol monitoring drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns Oversharing
🔗 'Where's the action?': Woodburn pauses Flock camera usage due to concerns over ICE raids OR
Woodburn
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🔗 ICE accessed Capitola license plate data. Police say it was a mistake. CA
Capitola
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Louisville police share data with national immigration dragnet KY
Louisville
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Federal immigration authorities accessed Washington state license plate readers, report finds WA
Olympia
Video
🔗 Leaving the Door Wide Open: Flock Surveillance Systems Expose Washington Data to Immigration Enforcement Analysis
Oversharing
🔗 City of Auburn condemns U.S. Border Patrol's unauthorized use of Flock camera system WA
Auburn
Oversharing
Restricted Sharing
🔗 ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras Oversharing
Paywall
🔗 El Cajon license plate data used in nationwide immigration searches CA
El Cajon
🔗 Flock Gives Law Enforcement All Over the Country Access to Your Location MA
ACLU
Oversharing
🔗 Virginia surveillance network tapped thousands of times for immigration cases VA
Bridgewater
Mecklenburg County
Analysis
Oversharing
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🔗 Who combed Virginia's Flock surveillance data for immigration enforcement? Search here. VA
Analysis
Oversharing
🔗 Fed immigration agencies used McLean County Sheriff's Department camera data despite Illinois law IL
McLean County
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 SFPD let Georgia, Texas cops illegally search city surveillance data on behalf of ICE CA
San Francisco
Oversharing
🔗 Police departments in McLean County say camera data not shared with immigration officers IL
McLean County
Oversharing
Notes: Don't miss the article from four days later revealing that, oops, in fact they did!
🔗 Giannoulias' Audit Uncovers Forest Park Police Department Sharing License Plate Reader Data with Customs and Border Protection a Violation of State Law IL
Forest Park
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Public Interest Law Firm Responds to Flock Safety Pausing Federal Access to License Plate Reader Cameras Analysis
Oversharing
🔗 Flock Safety pauses work with federal agencies amid privacy concerns Scope Creep
🔗 Flock Pledges Changes After Illinois Data-Sharing Accusation IL
Illegal
Oversharing
"It is not Flock's job to police the police..."
🔗 Company violated Illinois law by sharing license plate data with federal agency: Giannoulias IL
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide Oversharing
🔗 Giannoulias' Audit Finds License Plate Reader Company in Violation of State Law IL
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Flock admits federal immigration agents have direct access to tracking data, despite previous claims CO
False Claims
Oversharing
🔗 Loveland Police has shared access to license plate reader data with Border Patrol, records reveal CO
Loveland
Oversharing
Video
🔗 DEA agent used Illinois cop's Flock license plate reader password for immigration enforcement searches IL
Palos Heights
Illegal
More coverage:
🔗 Frequent immigration-related searches of Denver Flock camera data revealed in logs CO
Denver
Oversharing
🔗 Letter from Illinoise US Representative to Flock CEO Garrett Langley IL
Oversharing
Reproductive Rights
🔗 Federal license plate reader searches raise surveillance questions VA
Illegal
Oversharing
"In March, after four people detained at an ICE detention center in Farmville escaped, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives accessed data collected by Richmond's license plate reader system to assist in the immigration investigation — without permission to use the data for that purpose."
🔗 SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds CA
Oakland
San Francisco
Illegal
Oversharing
🔗 Richmond police ban feds from tracking immigrants' license plate data VA
Richmond
🔗 ATF officials apologize after using Richmond police database for immigration enforcement VA
Richmond
Oversharing
🔗 The feds' hidden immigration weapon: Virginia's surveillance network VA
Analysis
Oversharing
🔗 Fed's hidden immigration weapon – Virginia's surveillance network VA
Oversharing
🔗 Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed Oversharing
Reproductive Rights
🔗 Police flout state law on license plate privacy CA
Orange County
Illegal
Oversharing
Paywall
🔗 License Plate Readers Proliferate in Washington, Bringing Concerns over ICE Overreach WA
King County
Analysis
