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Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking

JEFFERSON, Ga. - Marci Bakely couldn't understand how her ex-boyfriend always seemed to know where she was.

When she went to buy groceries or on a date or to the doctor, he'd text her about it, sometimes within minutes, despite working 15 miles from her home as a police chief in a small town in the Atlanta suburbs. One day in 2024, when he incorrectly suspected that she'd gone to see a man against his wishes, he messaged her, "I didn't think you would slip up," according to texts she shared with The Washington Post.

Bakely, 50, began to feel like she was constantly being watched. She says she installed three cameras around her home and on her patio, to see if he was staking out her cul-de-sac. She bought a hidden-camera detector and nervously waved it down every wall. Three times, in desperation, she says she drove her Kia to a mechanic's shop, asking them to scan for trackers on her car.

Then one day, when she pressed him for answers, her ex told her in a text: He was using Flock.

Like thousands of other law-enforcement agencies across the United States, his police force could follow cars spotted by Flock's sprawling network of artificial-intelligence roadside cameras, which record passing license plates into a mappable database that officers can search while investigating crime.

Flock had sold its system as a police officer's dream crime-fighting tool. But the tool had also given the chief, Michael Steffman, the power to silently monitor Bakely's life. By the time she understood what was happening, Steffman had looked up the tags for her and her teenage daughter roughly 600 times, according to Have I Been Flocked, a website that aggregates police search logs made available through public records.

We already saw during the primaries that the GOP is cutting as many polling places as possible so people can't make it in time or aren't able to stand in line long enough to vote.

Tarrant County is about to have a vote to cut about half of their polling sites. Expect more of that in your area, and expect that you might not hear about it.

Also, check REPEATEDLY that you're registered to vote, especially as we get closer to the election! Just because you were registered in March doesn't necessarily mean you'll still be registered in November.

The last day to register to vote in the midterms is October 5.

Oh, the party's nominee wasn't even in your primary? Too bad, the GOP was worried their candidate might lose so they redid the voting maps. You get next door's candidate instead.

Goodbye, Lara (Kinema Citrus, 2026)