Vegas police are big users of license plate readers. Public has little input because it’s a gift.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department quietly entered an agreement in 2023 with Flock Security, an automated license plate reader company that uses cameras to collect vehicle information and cross-reference it with police databases. Unlike many of the other police departments around the country that use the cameras in their police work, Metro funds the project with donor money funneled into a private foundation.

Axon’s Draft One Is Designed to Defy Transparency

Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of...

America’s nuclear arsenal to cost $946B over next decade, government report reveals

The estimated total rose by 25 percent over the last two years, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

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DeJoy’s 10-Year Plan Could Gut USPS. He Doesn’t Want You to Know the Details.

The Trump-appointed postmaster general behaves as if the public isn't entitled to transparency at a public institution.

Evidence grows that Trump hoarded documents — and showed them to people

The slow emergence of new details yields an increasingly clear picture.