How the file is built
Sources
Primary wires first: dockets, agendas, bills, agency releases, then coverage. If a live-wire headline duplicates a desk item, it is dropped. Sign in to Your file to paste what the wire missed and to store keys for optional tools.
Added to the wire
Paste a site or its RSS address. The next desk refresh polls it. Flock / ALPR filter is on unless you turn it off. Reason is already built in.
How the file is built
No model on ingest
News, dockets, agendas, bills, agency releases, and the Flock newsroom are pulled with RSS, Atom, sitemaps, and Legistar JSON. Classification is regex and a place gazetteer. The only LLM feature is Brief this view, and that runs on an xAI key you paste in Your file — never a shared key.
Dockets · CourtListener / RECAP
Schmidt v. City of Norfolk, 4th Cir. 26-1227
The Fourth Amendment lead case. Atom feed on the appeal docket plus the E.D. Va. trial docket (2:24-cv-00621). Filings land here before a reporter writes them up.
United States v. Slaybaugh, 11th Cir. 25-14394
Suppression fight over Flock tracking in a criminal case. Appeal docket plus M.D. Ala. 3:25-cr-00104.
California class actions
Tan v. City of San Jose (IJ, N.D. Cal. 5:26-cv-03181), Hellerman v. Flock (C.D. Cal. 2:26-cv-00515), and In re Flock Group ALPR Litigation. Direct RECAP feeds, not Google News.
Tewolde v. Genesee County
Michigan FOIA suit over camera maps and audit logs, filed Aug. 18, 2026 in Genesee Circuit Court. State court — not on RECAP yet — so the desk keeps the Mackinac complaint as the primary until a docket feed exists.
Agendas · Legistar
Municipal matters search
Legistar Web API for cities that expose it (San Jose, Seattle, Oakland, Columbus, Detroit, Boston, and others). Keyword: Flock, ALPR, license plate. That is how a cancellation shows up as a line item before the article. Knox County is not on Legistar's public API; paste commission packets into Your file until a Granicus feed is confirmed.
Bills
Watched statutes
Washington SB 6002 (signed model), Ohio Cutrona felony-misuse announcement (no bill number yet), Arkansas SB 446 / 2013 ALPR Act, Iowa 2027 session watch. Official legislature pages. Live LegiScan polling waits on a key you add in Your file — Cloudflare blocks anonymous LegiScan RSS.
Agency
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Direct RSS. Albany arrests came from GBI, not a newspaper. Keyword-filtered so the feed is not every murder presser in Georgia. POST/decertification and SC Criminal Justice Academy papers are still a scrape problem — no public RSS yet; Hammond-style separations get pasted into Your file.
Advocacy and vendor, direct
404 Media, EFF Deeplinks, IJ, ACLU, Reason
Publisher RSS, keyword-filtered for Flock/ALPR. Reason is https://reason.com/feed/. Not routed through Google News.
Cato
Cato's RSS is Cloudflare-blocked from this host. Schmidt amicus coverage stays as a desk item until that feed opens.
Flock Safety newsroom
Sitemap lastmod on flocksafety.com/blog — announcements at publish time, marked as vendor claims.
Flock on X (@flocksafety)
Desk-selected posts (case codes, Audit Assistance, seven-day retention). A live @flocksafety firehose needs an X API key. This app will not spend a shared one.
Still on the wire
Google News live wire
Flock and ALPR queries, publisher URLs unwrapped for sharing. Heuristic classification. Open the original before citing as gospel.
The Washington Post / AP / WATE / DeFlock
Curated desk file for the 2026 misuse investigation, Knox County, and mapping accounts.