CLEVELAND, Ohio — A top Flock Safety executive on Friday offered a full-throated defense of the company’s controversial license plate readers and its nationwide search network, which critics say amounts to a mass-surveillance system.
LAKEWOOD, Ohio (WOIO) – Lakewood city officials are escalating efforts to hold FirstEnergy accountable after thousands of customers lost power during a heat wave earlier this month.During a Monday night council meeting, the city laid out its past and present responses to FirstEnergy. The city’s law director says they want the legal action to result…
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The U.S. Supreme Court on April 9, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio — The U.S. Supreme Court will review a religious discrimination case from University Heights, Ohio, where a man said he was told by the city that he needed a permit to pray. Daniel Grand filed a federal lawsuit in 2022…
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Newly released records show Cleveland’s Flock cameras were searched nearly 2,000 times to assist I.C.E. or enforce immigration laws in 2025, including cases where officers found vehicles they were looking for on Cleveland’s camera network.
A Cleveland City Council committee— the same body that voted down the Flock safety camera contract in committee just weeks ago — turned right around and reversed itself, handing Mayor Bibb the authority to extend the contract anyway.