Flock surveillance cameras raise constitutional questions, bipartisan US senators say

By: Ariana Figueroa

Outlets: DC Bureau (States Newsroom)

Published: September 23, 2026

Words: 987

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 4 days ago

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WASHINGTON — A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday hearing.

GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, the chair of the Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, said the point of the hearing was to find out “what is going on with the expanding surveillance network that appears to be going coast to coast in this country.”

Hawley said he invited …

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