Ohio law enforcement agencies are contracting with surveillance vendor Flock Safety, deploying its vast automated license plate reader (ALPR) network despite the state’s constitutional protections for abortion. Civil liberties groups like the ACLU and EFF argue this is reckless, highlighting a Texas case where a sheriff used Flock’s 83,000-camera network to track a woman across state lines after a self-managed abortion. Authorities initially misrepresented the investigation as a “missing person case,” demonstrating the system’s potential for pretextual abuse. While police defend the technology as a tool for solving crimes like car theft, critics argue the lack of regulation and Flock’s hands-off approach to data usage create an unacceptable risk to reproductive freedom and privacy, turning public roads into a dragnet.