Texas city demands $2.3M for records on Flock surveillance
Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, North Richland Hills officials told the Texas Privacy Coalition that searching a terabyte of communications about errors, misuse, and effectiveness would take 14 years of labor at $15 an hour. Other agencies have quoted up to $121,000, while some hand over hundreds of thousands of pages for free. The fees may be hiding data that has triggered audits, arrests, and camera removals.
That judge, Sara Hill, argued that Flock's network "is a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance," with its ALPR technology creating a "large-scale, dragnet-type surveillance system" that should require a warrant to search.