Today's real surveillance story is out of Pekin, Illinois, where police want to skip competitive bidding to fast-track license plate reading cameras — a move that deserves public scrutiny, not a rubber stamp. The rest of today's headlines are outside our lane, but skipping bidding on surveillance tech sets a troubling precedent worth watching everywhere.
- Pekin Police ask city to waive competitive bidding for license plate reading cameras 25newsnow.com
Waiving competitive bidding for ALPR cameras cuts out public vetting on cost, vendor, and data-sharing terms — city council should say no.
- Mark Levin: There's no question Trump's military actions against the Iranian regime have been courageous Fox News
Not a surveillance story; no comment from us on military policy debates.
- Democrat-turned-Republican seeks to flip Massachusetts House seat Fox News
Not a surveillance story; local politics, outside our beat.
- North Dakota mom stabs her 2 children to death in 'horrific' killing that left cops traumatized: officials Fox News
Not a surveillance story; a tragedy, not a policing or privacy issue.
- McKinney mosque approval sparks resident outrage over Sharia law concerns Fox News
Not a surveillance story on its face, though zoning disputes like this often invite later camera and monitoring proposals worth tracking.
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