Denver called Flock a 'bad actor.' Evanston covered the cameras with plastic. Oshkosh reversed a contract in 24 hours. Then a Washington citizen won the right to see his data, and the legislature passed a law to make sure nobody could ever do it again.
Two Virginia residents are suing their city for placing them under continuous warrantless surveillance by 200 Flock cameras. The legal theory behind their case has already killed one surveillance program. Flock's entire business model is next.
A researcher found live police cameras streaming to the open internet with no password. Hardcoded keys in the source code. A $5 USB stick that gives root access. Flock Safety is worth $8.4 billion. It runs on Android 8.
A Milwaukee officer ran a woman's plates 170 times in two months. The detective assigned to investigate him was stalking a different woman. In Idaho, a sheriff searched his own wife 700 times. Nobody audited any of it.
A camera misread a plate number and a mother and her children were held at gunpoint on hot asphalt. The system that did it now operates in 6,000 cities, scans 250 million plates a month, and has never been independently audited.
Meeker's town administrator moved from mayor to executive in a closed-door vote. His wife's firm landed the grant contracts. When the town tried to fire the police chief, it all unraveled.
Two data center developers want to rezone 2,400 acres of Piedmont farmland and drain 1.7 GW from the grid. One held an open house. The other banned the press. The city council votes Monday.
The Pentagon sent a general. The DOE sent an assistant secretary. Trump sent a letter. The residents of Inola sent them all home and voted unanimously at midnight to freeze the smelter.
Inola's town council passed a 60-day moratorium freezing all smelter permits. Tulsa Ports fired back calling it a "regulatory taking." Now residents are collecting signatures to put the smelter's fate to a public vote.
A $4B aluminum smelter backed by the UAE government is headed for rural Inola, Oklahoma. Residents were kept in the dark by NDAs while officials approved $1.3 billion in new power capacity that could hike electric bills 15%. Now the AG is suing to stop it.
A police chief investigated his own city government over a secret data center deal. He cleared them of crimes, then admitted under questioning he never looked into the one document that started it all.
Inola officials blocked citizens from two public meetings on a controversial aluminum smelter, then threatened a reporter with arrest for calling it out. Leaked texts and confrontational footage tell the rest.
A 3-month rookie officer claims he can enforce fire codes he has no jurisdiction over, blocking citizens from an open public meeting. Then things get physical. Watch what happens next.
Okmulgee County deputies demanded ID to enter a public courthouse, even after admitting they already knew exactly who he was. Then a mayor's arrest record didn't add up. It's all on camera.
A Vian Schools principal allegedly hired her own son to coach girls despite university records tied to rape allegations. Then new student complaints surfaced. What the police chief admitted on camera raises more questions than answers.
