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Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act

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128 points p_ing | 1 comments | 09 Nov 25 00:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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Wistar ◴[09 Nov 25 03:21 UTC] No.45862615[source]▶
There are quite a few private Flock camera installations (HOA, neighborhood, business) in my locale. I assume those are exempt from FOIA requests but wonder if law enforcement can access that data.
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tptacek ◴[09 Nov 25 03:29 UTC] No.45862663[source]▶
Those private installations are almost certainly not subject to FOIA (they wouldn't be in Illinois, hard to see how they would be in any state). Without a court order, none of them should be exposed to law enforcement, though there might be opt-out features that have that effect.
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Wistar ◴[09 Nov 25 03:58 UTC] No.45862781[source]▶
I was wondering if Flock shares the private-contract camera data with law enforcement.
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1. gusgus01 ◴[09 Nov 25 04:30 UTC] No.45862907[source]▶
It comes down to the individual agreements that those private-contract cameras have with Flock, which unfortunately means it might be a case by case basis to understand if any one has conditions that allow sharing with law enforcement. IT was recently discovered that local police departments that had Flock contracts that limited the police department's access did not restrict general access, so Flock could still use it how they wanted and let federal agencies (ICE) use it: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-massachus...