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Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion

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Texas police reportedly used AI to generate a report documenting how they used Flock Safety's license plate reader network to search for a woman suspected of having an abortion. The case surfaces a documented law enforcement use of two surveillance technologies together in the context of abortion prosecution.

Why this matters: Two things are happening at once here, and each one is already alarming on its own. Flock's license plate readers let police track where a car has been, at scale, without a specific suspect in mind first. That surveillance infrastructure now appears to be used to pursue someone over an abortion. The AI-written report adds another layer: it makes it easier and faster to process and document that surveillance. More documentation capacity means more cases. If you live in a state where abortion is restricted, your car's movements are evidence.

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