{
  "id": "R-0524",
  "title": "Flock Safety ALPR abortion investigation, Johnson County Sheriff's Office, Texas, 2024–2025",
  "short_title": "Licence-plate network searched to track a woman after an abortion",
  "jurisdiction": {
    "country": "United States",
    "region": "Texas",
    "level": "regional"
  },
  "domain": "policing",
  "system_type": "other",
  "system_name": "Flock Safety ALPR (Automated License Plate Reader) network",
  "deployed_by": "Johnson County Sheriff's Office, Texas, using Flock Safety infrastructure",
  "year_start": 2024,
  "year_end": 2025,
  "harm_type": "individual",
  "subject_count_estimate": 1,
  "subject_identification": "anonymous_collective",
  "oversight_trigger": "journalism",
  "oversight_date": "2025-10",
  "remedy_status": "none",
  "documentation_status": "verified",
  "summary_50w": "Johnson County Sheriff's Office in Texas queried Flock Safety's nationwide ALPR network of over 83,000 cameras to locate a woman who had self-managed an abortion, logging the reason as 'had an abortion.' Authorities framed it as a death investigation of a non-viable fetus. No charges were filed, but EFF-obtained documents contradict official denials that the search was unrelated to abortion enforcement.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.",
      "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it",
      "publisher": "Electronic Frontier Foundation",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-15",
      "is_primary": false,
      "notes": "Originating report"
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "Washington State Attorney General — shield-law guidance for reproductive and gender-affirming care",
      "url": "https://www.atg.wa.gov/reproductive-and-gender-affirming-care-shielding-providers-seekers-and-helpers-out-state-legal",
      "publisher": "Washington State Attorney General",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-16",
      "is_primary": true
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "Illinois Secretary of State — news release, 12 June 2025",
      "url": "https://www.ilsos.gov/content/dam/news/2025/june/250612d1.pdf",
      "publisher": "Illinois Secretary of State",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-16",
      "is_primary": true
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "California State Assembly Privacy Committee — analysis of SB 274 (2025)",
      "url": "https://apcp.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2025-07/sb-274-cervantes-apcp-analysis.pdf",
      "publisher": "California State Assembly — Privacy Committee",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-16",
      "is_primary": true
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "Letter from Reps. Garcia and Krishnamoorthi to Flock Safety on licence-plate tracking (6 August 2025)",
      "url": "https://krishnamoorthi.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/krishnamoorthi.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-08-06.garcia-krishnamoorthi-to-flock-re-lpr-tech-and-tracking.pdf",
      "publisher": "U.S. House of Representatives (Rep. Krishnamoorthi)",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-16",
      "is_primary": true
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "Sen. Wyden — licence-plate surveillance company agrees to protect Oregonians' data from immigration and abortion-related abuses",
      "url": "https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-announces-agreement-by-license-plate-surveillance-tech-company-to-protect-oregonians-data-from-immigration-and-abortion-related-abuses",
      "publisher": "U.S. Senate (Sen. Wyden)",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-16",
      "is_primary": true
    },
    {
      "type": "other",
      "title": "A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion",
      "url": "https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/",
      "publisher": "404 Media",
      "date": null,
      "access_date": "2026-04-16",
      "is_primary": false
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "license_plate_reader",
    "abortion_surveillance",
    "reproductive_rights",
    "cross_state_data_sharing",
    "law_enforcement_misuse",
    "surveillance_chilling_effect",
    "flock_safety",
    "death_investigation_framing"
  ],
  "extraction_metadata": {
    "first_collected": "2026-04-15T17:03:47.365946+00:00",
    "last_verified": "2026-04-18T10:54:11.551330+00:00",
    "verified_by": "human_review"
  }
}