Puppy video moves Flock's 120,000 cameras overnight; the bill to rein them in hasn't moved in weeks.

…(cont) Eleven days later, a reporter aboard Air Force One mentioned to President Trump that police like the cameras. He said he liked them too. Four days after that, Texas froze new installations — Gov. Greg Abbott stopped the state adding more poles, while every camera already up kept running.

That left the camera count where it was and the search count climbing. On Long Island, departments ran nearly 3,000 manual searches through the database in a single month: Nassau County logged 1,112 in June, Suffolk County ran another 1,194, and the Suffolk district attorney's office added more on top of that. Nobody voted on any of it. Nobody had to.

Earlier that same stretch, in Texas, a police department had used AI to write up its report on a Flock search for a woman who'd had an abortion. The system logged the search, wrote the report, filed it. The bill meant to put anybody's permission between a camera network and a woman's medical history hadn't even been introduced yet.

This week the system found a new gear.

In Texas, the same network logged a search on a woman's medical history, and the department let AI write the report. The bill that would put oversight on either kind of search, Rep. Massie's, was filed on 3 September. It has not had a vote. Four weeks later, the network is still adding searches, still adding cameras, and still moving overnight — when the search is popular enough.