Police in Lenexa, Kansas, tracked an activist using Flock-style surveillance cameras after he published an opinion piece criticising the department. The activist, Canyen Ashworth, had called for local leaders to reform policing and rebuild community trust following two high-profile incidents. A few weeks later, a local journalist informed him that he was under police investigation. Ashworth subsequently discovered the monitoring through an open records request.

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