Not in the way you think though. Connecting thoughts from an ANTH class to today

Controversial cameras like Flock and automated license plate readers are mistakenly flagging more cars. NBC News’ Dana Griffin spoke with one woman who was stopped multiple times.

This story was first published in Technical.ly. The Baltimore Police Department purchased more than 200 Axon Enterprise automated license plate readers, public records show.  In May, the Board of Esti...

Rashawn Ray and Rebekah Boitey explore how AI surveillance in schools shapes safety, trust, and racial equity.

It can be useful to see reality as malleable.

Despite the eight-fold growth of surveillance cameras directly accessible by Atlanta PD officers, crime clearance rates haven't increased.

A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people.

Righteous Black rage spilled over the borders into the downtown Inner Harbor. The cover of TIME magazine showed a mob of cops in riot gear chasing a young Black person down the street in front of Orio...

A San Diego man spent one month in jail for a crime he didn't commit, after San Diego Police misinterpreted a hit from a license plate reader.

New AI-powered surveillance towers spreading across the U.S.-Mexico border are raising privacy concerns.

The ACLU filed complaints against several Maryland police departments asking for formal apologies and reforms over the use of facial recognition technology they say landed an innocent woman in jail fo...

Ron DeSantis has empowered hundreds of Florida conservation police to work directly with ICE.

Documents obtained by KMVT revealed the sheriff was under investigation leading up to his announcement.

“CAPTURED ON FLOCK CAMERA 31 MM 1 HOLDING PHONE IN LEFT HAND.”

An Oakland woman's license plates were stolen off her car and replaced with ones associated with a 'serious crime' leading to her getting pulled over by sheriff’s deputies.

(by Pegah K. Parsi) In Schmidt v. City of Norfolk , No. 2:24-cv-621 (E.D. Va. Jan. 27, 2026), a federal court upheld Norfolk’s citywide automated license plate reader (ALPR) program against a Fourth...

Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Charles Cross Jr. worked for MPD from 1993 to 2012.