Property tax growth is capped. Ticket quotas are a crime. Red light cameras are banned. Code enforcement is none of those things which is exactly where the cameras went. Second of two parts. Part One examined Dallas’s AI “blight score” program: 100 cameras on 50 sanitation trucks, more than 21,000 properties flagged in four months, and a pre-launch goal of...
September 11, 2026
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Scored by a Garbage Truck: Inside Dallas’s AI “Blight” Surveillance Program
The city mounted 100 cameras on sanitation trucks, flagged 21,000 properties in four months, and set a target of 5,200 enforcement notices a year. Homeowners on fixed incomes are the ones holding the notices. Twice a month, a brush and bulky-waste truck rolls past a house in southern Dallas. It does not stop. Mounted on each side of the cab...
How Missouri Held a Primary on a Map That Was Never Law
Missouri voters cast primary ballots on August 4 in congressional districts drawn by House Bill 1. One month later, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that HB 1 never took effect and has never been the law of the state. Both statements are accurate. Reconciling them is the whole of Missouri’s redistricting fight, and the answer is not that a...
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The Fine Print: How Texas Cities Learned to Tax Without Voting
Property tax growth is capped. Ticket quotas are a crime. Red light cameras are banned. Code enforcement is none of...
Scored by a Garbage Truck: Inside Dallas’s AI “Blight” Surveillance Program
The city mounted 100 cameras on sanitation trucks, flagged 21,000 properties in four months, and set a target of 5,200...
How Missouri Held a Primary on a Map That Was Never Law
Missouri voters cast primary ballots on August 4 in congressional districts drawn by House Bill 1. One month later, the...
German Industry’s Revenue Is Recovering. Its Job Cuts Are Accelerating.
Updated with data through September 7, 2026 For ten consecutive quarters, German industrial revenue contracted. That streak ended in the...
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Flock Became Surveillance’s Bunker Hill. What That Costs a Company Valued at $8.4 Billion
In February, Denver told Flock Safety it would not renew the contract for the license plate readers used by its...
Fewer Kids, More Doubt: Northeast Football Programs Are Falling Below the Minimum
Port Jefferson High School was scheduled to open its 100th season of varsity football on Sept. 4 at Center Moriches....
Florida Pulled the Cameras Off Its Highways. The State Still Sells Your Driver Data.
The Florida Department of Transportation revoked every permit it had issued for automated license plate readers in state highway rights-of-way...