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Comment by cipehr | Hacker News Reader

I can't stand this type of "journalism"/sensationalism.

> Redmond’s Police Department was not among those listed in the report, and has never allowed external agencies to access their Flock data without requesting and receiving permission from the police chief first, according to an Oct. 24 statement by Lowe.

So because the arrests were near a Flock Camera the "journalist" is connecting the two? Even with the statements an information to the contrary?

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This wouldn't be the first time Flock was used by ICE and would not be the first time Flock allowed ICE backdoor access against the wishes of the local government or police department in Washington. https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2025/10/21/leaving-t...

So making the connection isn't a leap and seems like a pretty pragmatic action taken to reduce ICE's ability to surveil communities.

Very tinfoil hat of them.

The journalists didn't make this connection, it was a topic of discussion at the city council meeting. And the result of that discussion was to suspend the cameras anyway, out of concern that ICE could end up with the the Flock data, even if they hadn't already. It would have been odd for the journalist to report on the outcome and leave out the event that prompted it.

Yes. Because Flock literally cannot be trusted.

As an ex-Flock employee in my county alone, Flock's "Transparency Report" only lists -half- of the agencies using Flock.

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