{"id":64576,"date":"2026-08-02T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64576"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T16:36:38","slug":"wapo-how-rogue-officers-turned-a-nationwide-camera-network-into-a-tool-for-stalking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64576","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2026\/08\/02\/how-police-officers-used-vast-network-cameras-spy-their-exes\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_term=\">How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking<\/a> by Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer (\u201cFlock\u2019s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.\u201d)<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking by Drew Harwell, Douglas MacMillan and Aaron Schaffer (\u201cFlock\u2019s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automatic-license-plate-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64577,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64576\/revisions\/64577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}