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A Flock Safety license plate reader camera near Casa Grande, Ariz., in October 2025. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
Who’s tracking Arizona drivers through Flock cameras? Often, it’s police from other states.
Law enforcement agencies outside of Arizona are some of the biggest users of Flock data gathered by the Maricopa County Sheriff Office and Lake Havasu Police Department, records obtained by the Arizona Mirror show. Both agencies say they’re limiting that data sharing, but privacy advocates are still concerned.
The records detailing Flock usage by the two law enforcement agencies, which the Mirror obtained under Arizona’s public records law, show how police both locally and nationally have been using the AI-powered…
Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes debates Senate President Warren Petersen, the Republican nominee, at the Clean Elections debate on Sept. 23, 2026. (Photo by Joe Rondone/The Arizona Republic/pool)
Arizona AG rivals Mayes and Petersen trade attacks over experience, donors and deportation
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Senate President Warren Petersen spent an hour talking over each other and making snide comments in a Wednesday night debate over which of the two candidates should be the state’s top law enforcement official for the next four years.
Mayes highlighted the lawsuits her office has been involved in under her leadership as proof that she’s fought for Arizonans and will…
U.S. Army Spc. Alexander Scheets, left, and Spc. Kylie Chislow, right, assigned to Foxtrot Company, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, part of Joint Task Force – Southern Border, guides a MQ-1 Gray Eagle onto the airstrip at Fort Huachuca on May 14, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Chase Murray)
War-zone surveillance comes home as Predator drones fly loops over Arizona border towns
An Army drone like those frequently flown in overseas warzones has been flying along Arizona’s southern border, doing loops around border towns, as part of a collaboration between the military and U.S. Department of Homeland Security that has privacy advocates concerned.
Under Operation Ardent Vanguard, the military operation overseen by the U.S. Northern Command to assist DHS in “obtaining full operational control of the Southern border…
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