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Help 404 Media Find Out How Your Local Police Are Surveiling You

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Summary

404 Media asks citizens to request Axon ALPR activity and sharing logs from local police via public‑records requests, providing a template and examples of reports they’ve already obtained.

  • Axon’s ALPR system logs searchable activity, network sharing, data‑sharing history, and hotlist changes – similar to Flock’s audit reports.
  • 404 Media has already collected reports from several U.S. agencies (e.g., Benton County Sheriff, WA; Falmouth PD, ME).
  • The article supplies a copy‑and‑paste public‑records request covering four Axon report types for the period from Jan 1 2025 onward.

Understanding how law‑enforcement agencies use and share ALPR data is crucial for privacy and civil‑rights oversight; public‑records requests are a concrete way for engineers and citizens to audit surveillance tech deployments.

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