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6 months

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

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    New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," collected evidence of a woman’s self-managed abortion, and consulted prosecutors about possibly charging her.
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    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
      6 months

      That sheriff has since been arrested and indicted on felony counts in an unrelated sexual harassment and whistleblower retaliation case. He has also been charged with aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury. EFF filed public records requests with Johnson County to obtain a more definitive account of events.

      At least his side of the story has a happy ending.

      The rest of the story is bonkers, though. The headline could not possibly do it justice. This is one you need to sit down and read with a cup of tea.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 months

          Yep. This wasn’t systemic abuse, it was one guy. But it illustrates the possibilities.

        • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 months

          Sounds like a great lawsuit. Also a great way for Flock to lose their contracts with large blue cities in Texas (and elsewhere).

            • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6 months

              They’re being dropped left and right in Illinois. Even before this.

              • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
                6 months

                This should get them shut down as a company.

                  • Aljernon@lemmy.todayEnglish
                    6 months

                    We need an anti-flock campaign. A city government didn’t give them permission to put their cameras up and when they did it anyway, the city covered them in garbage bags before they could get removed.

                  • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
                    6 months

                    Also a great way for Flock to lose their contracts with large blue cities in Texas (and elsewhere).

                    This would only lead to the emergence of another Flock, with the same problems.

                    What you should really do is abolish that stupid and retrograde law.

                  • Joker@piefed.socialEnglish
                    6 months

                    The fetus was missing. /s

                      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish
                        6 months

                        She had hidden the fetus in her uterus.

                        Caught conniving crook red handed.

                      • jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zonedeleted by creatorEnglish
                        6 months

                        I’m gonna leave this here, which is actually for your safety. https://deflock.me/

                        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                          6 months

                          Like pleading with Hector not to fight Achilles, Cassandra has been warning about ALPRs for over a decade now, possibly two, that they were too intimate a search to allow law enforcement to use them without narrowly-defined warrants.

                          As with the Greek wooden horse Cassandra shouted was going to burn Troy to the ground, only too late we are seeing how such power can be used.

                          No one listens to Cassandra.

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                            6 months

                            I see small government is among us!

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                                                  • morphballganon@mtgzone.comEnglish
                                                    6 months

                                                    It’s more like ejecting a trespasser.

                                                    Imagine if a person broke into your home and you kicked them out, then they died of pneumonia. Their family sues you for killing them. But you didn’t kill them, you just kicked them out.

                                                    The person at fault is the person who committed the trespass.

                                                    She wouldn’t have to abort if the dick-haver kept it in his pants, would she?

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