Flock faces stalking arrest, teardown arrest, defunding bill; responds by raising donations to the politicians who buy it.

…(cont) On September 10th, the Albany Sheriff's office arrested one of its own. The office says the investigator used a Flock camera to track an ex. This is the exact capability the Flock-Off Act was written to restrict — a license-plate reader running exactly as advertised, pointed at a private life instead of a warrant.

Two days later, in Bernalillo County, a man named Jevon Martinez livestreamed himself taking down ten surveillance cameras and was arrested for it. Read the charge sheet, clause by clause: eight of the ten cameras he pulled down belonged not to Flock but to neighborhood associations. He filmed his own arrest and got the target wrong.

Put the four dates on one line and they stop being four stories. A bill to stop the company opens; the company's political giving rises to meet it; a badge gets used to run the exact private tracking job the bill would have covered; a man gets arrested for pulling down cameras that, it turns out, mostly weren't even Flock's. The bill sits in committee. The checks keep clearing.

Donations to a mayors' association are legal in every jurisdiction named in this filing — nothing here alleges otherwise. What the record shows is narrower and colder: the complaints arrived on a schedule, and the donation total moved on a schedule too, and the two schedules ran in the same direction all month.

That's the whole document. No conspiracy required, no motive assigned — just a bill, an arrest, a second arrest, and a rising number, filed in the order they happened. The caper, such as it is, wrote itself in public records. All together now — that's the filing.