Nearly 100 surveillance cameras from the technology company Flock Safety watch major roads across Spokane County, capturing photos of every single vehicle that drives past and tracking the movements of everyday people. Spokane County is not alone: as many as 80 cities across Washington have these cameras.
Flock cameras are always on, recording license plates and other details of everyone who passes by all day, every day and those details go into a networked, searchable database. This omnipresence represents a quantum leap in the surveillance power available to governments of all sizes to track their citizens regardless of where they are.
We spent more than five months digging into the impacts of this network on our community in the Inland Northwest.
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Valerie Osier
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