A Missouri Republican who chairs a Senate Judiciary subcommittee has opened a formal investigation into Flock Safety, the company whose AI-powered license plate cameras now blanket most of the country. Sen. Josh Hawley's demand for internal company records, sent Aug. 26, lands amid a rare left-right convergence of anger at the firm — and, for Latino families in the five metro areas LatinTimes covers most closely, the fight is no longer abstract. Local reporting over the past year has repeatedly tied Flock's camera network to federal immigration enforcement, from Illinois to Texas to Florida.
