It finally seems we're hitting a critical mass when it comes the police's new Flock ALPR cameras. Communities are having town halls, city council meetings, and even going rogue and tearing the cameras down themselves. This is because in the short time police have had access to these camera networks, they have wrecked havoc on their communities: spying, stalking, and falsely arresting people state to state. We talk about the issue at large and then focus on a particular incident in Florida, where a cop working security detail in TV studio uses ALPR cameras to stalk an extra he met on set.
Next, we discuss what we know so far about the infuriating killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This just happened last week in Houston, so everyone is still trying to scramble for the facts, but we put together the clearest picture we can from all the different reporting that's happened so far.
Then we talk about the upstate New York man who penned a letter so powerful to Todd Lyons it resulted in ICE showing up at his door and his freedom of speech going out the window. Lastly, there's the Atlanta cop who has been ordered to pay $21 million out of his own pocket to the estate of an unhoused man he paralyzed years ago