In San Jose, a police officer entrusted with public safety turned surveillance technology into a weapon, accessing a license plate tracking database without authorization to deliver a domestic abuse victim's location to her alleged abuser — his own cousin. The firing that followed is a single, clarifying moment within a much larger and still-unresolved story about what happens when powerful tools of observation are placed in human hands without adequate restraint. California has had five years and many opportunities to impose safeguards on this technology; it has chosen, repeatedly, not to. Th
San Jose officer fired for using Flock database to aid domestic abuser
A woman was endangered when a police officer shared her location with her domestic abuser, enabling potential further harassment or harm.