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Thursday, September 24, 2026 · The digital civil-liberties brief · View on the web
Massachusetts and Wisconsin fusion centers tracked activists using SparrowMap to log police vehicles. (Matthew Petti / reason.com)
Top
- Edison officials voted 6-1 to add about 90 Flock license plate readers. (News 12 - New Jersey)
- St. Clair Shores pauses Flock cameras after the FBI accessed license plate data. (WXYZ 7 News Detroit)
- California lawmakers passed AB 1883 to bar employers from using AI surveillance. (The National Law Review - A Free To Use Nationwide Database of Legal Publications)
- Mumbai deploys AI surveillance cameras and drones along religious procession routes. (The Times of India)
- Councils across England call for stricter regulation of live facial recognition technology. (The MJ)
Under the radar
- Chattanooga police will ask the City Council to approve a $15 million contract. (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Flock watch
Methuen, Massachusetts ends police use of Flock readers (Boston 25 News)
Horace, North Dakota votes 3-1 to remove Flock cameras (Valley News Live)
Illinois cuts off Flock data sharing with ICE (wandtv.com)
Lowell, Massachusetts votes 6-5 to suspend Flock surveillance cameras (Boston 25 News)
Tallahassee voted unanimously to draft surveillance rules (Tallahassee Democrat)
Surveillance & Privacy
- A whistleblower alleges USCIS staff posed as Virginia voters to access records. (8News)
- Pune Police will deploy over 3,500 CCTV cameras and facial recognition during Ganeshotsav. (Punekar News)
- Representative Boebert warns police drones threaten Fourth Amendment privacy rights. (The Daily Caller)
- The Secret Service operates a drone surveillance system adjacent to the White House. (Stamford Advocate)
Coming Up
Thu Sep 24 · DEADLINE · La Cañada Flintridge, CA — Deadline to submit resident questions about Flock cameras for the Public Safety Commission meeting agenda packet (outlooknewspapers.com)
Thu Sep 24 · HEARING · Tempe, AZ — Tempe City Council holds a first hearing on a proposed ordinance banning automated license plate readers (yourvalley.net)
Thu Sep 24 · MEETING · Alexandria, VA — Alexandria Police Department holds a community listening session on police surveillance technology and Flock license plate readers (The Alexandria Brief)
Thu Sep 24 · MEETING · Tempe, AZ — Tempe City Council introduces an ordinance to ban automated license plate readers (AZfamily.com)
Thu Sep 24 · TRIAL · New Scotland, NY — Laurie Moore appears in New Scotland Justice Court for charges of official misconduct and falsifying business records (Guessing Headlights)
Thu Sep 24 · VOTE · College Station, Texas — College Station City Council decides whether to renew contract for 84 Flock automated license plate reader cameras (Community Impact Newspaper)
Speech & Press
- An Iowa court dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer. (reason.com)
- UK announces a National Centre for Information Defence pairing intelligence agencies and social platforms. (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)
- LGBTQ student groups ask the Fifth Circuit to overturn campus drag show bans. (courthousenews.com)
Useful
Flock transparency portals — Flock publishes a page per customer agency. It shows how long your city keeps plate reads and which outside agencies can search them.
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