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Somebody pulled a Flock camera off a pole. Page 32 of Michigan's contract says what happens to what was inside it.

404 Media and WIRED went through a Flock camera. I read Michigan's contract next to it.

Sep 17, 2026

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6 min read

Florida's first license plate reader law made the data secret. The power to pull the cameras arrived 9 years later.

4 volumes of the same statute. The removal power is only in the newest one.

Sep 10, 2026

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9 min read

Flock's contract used to explain the AI training in plain English. That section is gone.

Section 4.3 promised the training data was never sold and never made identifiable. It is not in the contract any more.

Sep 3, 2026

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7 min read

Flock published its plain English contract guide. It skips the machine learning paragraph.

The guide went up August 21st. The words machine learning and anonymized appear zero times in it.

Aug 27, 2026

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5 min read

The records they said didn't exist

Kalamazoo denied the search logs on July 8. Two weeks later, 116,017 of them arrived. Here is the whole file, including the part where I was wrong.

Aug 21, 2026

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6 min read

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