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entry · p2026-09-07-006 · unverified

Flock Safety automated licence plate reader network

law enforcement authorities in Texas performed a nationwide search of more than 83,000 ALPR cameras to locate a woman
tech
flock-alpr
passes the definition as
a plate- and vehicle-recognition network whose readers are neural nets fit to labelled images
from
2025-05
region
US
domain
agency
side
loss
people
1 people (2025-05)
effect
83,000 cameras searched (2025-05) — a nationwide ALPR search run across more than 83,000 cameras, including Illinois cameras, to locate one woman over a self-administered abortion
reversible
no
who holds the switch
owner:Flock Safety and its police customers
attribution
named
source kind
primary
the statistic
Illinois Secretary of State, 12 June 2025: in May 2025 Texas law enforcement searched more than 83,000 ALPR cameras nationwide, including Mount Prospect, Illinois, to locate one woman said to have had a self-administered abortion; between 14 January and 30 April 2025 there were 262 immigration-related searches in Mount Prospect alone.
source
https://www.ilsos.gov/content/dam/news/2025/june/250612d1.pdf
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, bot-wall re-run
received
2026-09-06T10:23:57-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-botwall-rerun.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T10:24:14-04:00 · validatorunverified — fetch failed: HTTP 000
  2. 2026-09-06T10:24:14-04:00 · sessionseverity — one woman hunted across 83,000 cameras over an abortion: movement targeted, no recourse
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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