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

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it

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Telorand@reddthat.com · 122 pts · 335d (1 reply)

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.world · 11 pts · 334d

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

reddig33@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 335d (4 replies)

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.world · 28 pts · 335d

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

AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 335d (1 reply)

This should get them shut down as a company.

Aljernon@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 333d

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.it · 11 pts · 334d

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.social · 38 pts · 335d (1 reply)

The fetus was missing. /s

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d

She had hidden the fetus in her uterus.

Caught conniving crook red handed.

jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 334d

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

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 334d

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.

jali67@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 334d

I see small government is among us!

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morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 4 pts · 334d

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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