Federal Immigration Officials Made 279 Queries into Bend’s Flock Data — The Source

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Source: Peter Madsen, The Source — “Federal Immigration Officials Made 279 Queries into Bend’s Flock Safety Data in its First Three Weeks”

Publisher: The Source Weekly (Peter Madsen)
Date Published: May 6, 2026
Relevant To: ALPR presentation (August) — the single most-cited Bend ALPR fact in this library
Verification Status: Verified

Notes: The foundational reporting behind Bend’s Flock removal decision: reveals that ICE, CBP, and Homeland Security Investigations accessed Bend PD’s Flock ALPR database 279 times during June 2025, the first three weeks of the pilot program. Bend PD stated the exact data retrieved could not be determined because Flock’s audit trail was absent at the time. This is the article underlying nearly every other Bend Flock/ALPR entry in this library (the January 2026 removal, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s decision to exclude ALPR from its Axon contract, and multiple other-city comparison pieces all trace back to this reporting). Migrated from the existing Bend Surveillance Oversight source library.

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