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Records show federal agencies conducted sweeping surveillance on anti-ICE protesters, churches, and union halls during Minneapolis crackdowns. Meanwhile, the Flock license plate reader company announced new oversight after police tracked personal contacts without authorization.
Federal agencies conducted sweeping surveillance on anti-ICE protesters, churches, and union halls during Minneapolis crackdowns, according to records now public. Separately, Flock Security (the license plate reader company) announced new oversight measures after police tracked personal contacts of drivers without authorization or warrants. These two revelations show the surveillance isn't just government overreach—it's also vendor-enabled, with private companies providing the tools that police then misuse.
The pattern here is mission creep combined with accountability gaps. Surveillance tools designed for one purpose (tracking vehicles at borders, say) get repurposed to monitor political activity. When a vendor like Flock tightens controls after the fact, it's essentially admitting the tool was already being abused. The churches and union halls detail matters: this wasn't surveillance of criminal suspects, it was surveillance of ordinary organizing. That Flock is now promising "new oversight" suggests they weren't enforcing real restrictions before.
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