The legal term for this response is “making shit up”—evidenced by the complete failure to cite any actual legal basis.

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The ACLU of Iowa and the University of Iowa submitted public records requests to agencies across the state for information on ALPR systems.

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Agencies “nonsensically” claimed transparency portals as confidential—only one agency, Davenport, actually made this claim explicitly, though several claimed they didn’t maintain the portal.

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Agencies routinely disclose legally protected intelligence data, criminal justice information, and criminal history information to commercial and government partners in violation of statutory restrictions.

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For now, until the government acts, all we can do is wear specific adversarial clothing to defeat ReID and don ski masks to defeat facial recognition.

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Portal logs: Thirteen of 48 agencies provided heavily redacted portal logs containing only user UUIDs, search dates, camera counts, and reasons.

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While details on Flock’s actual implementation are sparse, examining an open source project like torch-reid as a model implementation reveals the broader implications.

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This is combined with soft biometrics, which includes things like clothing (color, type), apparent gender, accessories, and body mechanics (height, body shape, etc.).

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These partnerships obliterate Flock’s defense that information sharing is a local decision.

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That means RISS centers are not in any way restricted by copyright law[3], and don’t require a licensing agreement with Flock

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ICE also continues to have broad indirect access to Flock’s database through third parties, and through its 287(g) program, which pays state and local agencies for access to their officers and investigative tools and capacity.

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The federated RISS centers exist for a single purpose: to “facilitate information sharing.”

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Flock changes terms again; this time, it gives itself an unrestricted, irrevocable, perpetual license to all customer content. Also, it adds mandatory arbitration under Georgia law.

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Earlier this year, media reported that ICE had direct and indirect access to Flock’s database — a database widely used in Illinois.

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Flock’s leadership team responded first by blaming police, then by blaming its employees, and, when the media storm had passed, by quietly resuming sharing with immigration agencies through the backdoor.

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Location records obtained through cell phone warrants show that on the morning of the 29th, Frank took the train to Grayslake, spent some time there, and then took a bus to Marco’s house in Round Lake Beach.

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Instead of “good old-fashioned police work”—like searching 30 feet from a blood trail—the state relied on massive, retroactive digital dragnets.

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The plot of Minority Report soars over Garrett Langley's head as he attempts to lower expectations for Flock's broken evidence authentication.

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About an hour later, Wayne PD receives the phone call about multiple gunshots, roughly eight miles from the casino.

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The agencies successfully exploited information asymmetry to misrepresent compliance—even the ACLU and University of Iowa accepted heavily redacted portal logs as legitimate disclosure and moved on.

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Predictable denials, dubious legal assertions, and—remarkably—the first release of actual logs in Iowa.

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10 agencies claimed their search logs were confidential, 10 claimed their audit logs were confidential, and 2 nonsensically claimed their transparency portals were confidential.

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ACLU and University of Iowa Conduct Case Study in Institutional Contempt
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Maybe it doesn’t matter — we know that Flock’s outsourced data labeling platform classifies photos and screams, but that same analysis also revealed that it lets our foreign friends train another feature: ReID.

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An oft-repeated claim is that Flock cameras don’t detect people, and when they do it’s only basic movement detection, and totally not facial detection.

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By mid-March, police apply for a search warrant for all location data from every Android phone in a two kilometer (1.25 miles) radius around the location where Frank’s body was found.

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Flock's new CISO co-founded a nonprofit with a Bishop Fox board member. Now Bishop Fox is conducting Flock's 'independent' security audit. Sure.

Some of these are marketed features; like alerts when video signals are lost, or when persons cross a boundary defined on Flock’s PTZ cameras.

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In 2024, Illinois passed the Illinois TRUST Act (5 ILCS 805), which prohibits Illinois police from sharing data for civil immigration purposes.

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Vector State: License Plates for Pedestrians: https://lttr.ai/AncQR

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