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Three years of audits found nothing. The fourth found something.
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Dark graphic reading "Chandler, Arizona — August 7, 2026" above the number 40, with the caption "Flock Safety cameras discontinued after a routine audit found system use the police chief called potential internal misuse."
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Chandler PD audited its license plate readers for three years and found nothing. The fourth audit found use nobody could explain. The city did not tighten the policy — it revoked every officer's access and ended the program. 40 cameras, gone.
If your council has been told that audits make this technology safe, this is the case to raise. Chandler, Arizona ran audits for three years. The one that finally surfaced something ended the entire program — all 40 cameras, access revoked department-wide. The audit worked. It also took three years. Both halves matter. Every source at the link in bio.
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"We audit it, so it's fine" met its counterexample. Chandler audited for three years before one surfaced an anomaly the chief called potential internal misuse. Then the city ended the whole program. Note what that implies about the three years before.
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- Chandler shuts down 40 Flock cameras after an audit finds use it cannot explain
Three years of routine audits found nothing. The fourth found something. The largest Arizona city running Flock Safety cameras responded by revoking every officer's access and ending the program outright.
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- Chandler discontinues use of Flock's automated license plate readersThe city's own announcement. Authoritative for what Chandler decided and said: 40 cameras discontinued, the agreement not renewed, department access revoked. The city's further statement that no resident's privacy was compromised is an official claim about an investigation that was still open, and we present it as the city's position rather than as established fact.Agency release
- Chandler ends use of Flock license plate readers after audit finds anomalyCorroborating local coverage of the Chandler shutdown. Establishes that the trigger was a routine audit that found an anomaly in system use. It reports the city's account of that audit; the audit document itself has not been obtained, so the nature of the anomaly remains the city's characterization.Local reporting
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