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Gardner, Kansas Police Are Dropping Flock Cameras, One of Three Separate Flock Stories on HN the Same Day
KMBC reported that Gardner, Kansas police will discontinue their Flock license plate readers as the systems face growing privacy scrutiny; the story reached 127 points and 60 comments on HN on 2026-08-19. It landed the same day as the 717-search stalking arrest (185 points), a 404 Media interview with a different officer explaining his own plate-reader misuse (59 points), and WIRED's OS Investigate code recovery. Four independent Flock stories on one front page is the clearest signal yet that the automated-surveillance backlash has moved from advocacy groups to procurement decisions.
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