Topic
Governance of law enforcement access to commercial surveillance systems, including justification logging and audit-record release practices.
Alpharetta has about 120 officers and a Flock setting that auto-approves data requests from any police agency within 500 miles, which is how one suburb's plate reads reached Medicare fraud investigators in Illinois.
Reality
Flock now logs 20 billion plate reads a month while dozens of cities move to switch off their cameras, and the renewal question now comes down to a settings screen, not a Fox News interview.
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Every number in this case came out of a public records request rather than an alert. Three months of queries accrued in the log before any consequence arrived, which is what buying lookup power without a detector looks like from the outside.
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The department let its Flock agreement lapse over data ownership, yet 138 city cameras keep filling a cloud it cannot read. The replacement deal is a spec sheet of data terms.
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Have I Been Flocked has turned scattered public-records releases into a cross-agency search layer for a network its vendor says covers more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies.
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