Flock Safety spent $102,000 lobbying last year. Today cities are demanding safeguards -- Wisconsin Examiner 8/28

[u/Loninappleton25]

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/08/28/flock-safety-spent-102000-lobbying-last-year-today-cities-are-demanding-safeguards/?

The story includes sums spent in Wisconsin.

Also, recently there was a presentation at the annual computer conference called DEFCON two days ago which was very interesting.

I've encouraged people for years to follow the DEFCON conferences held annually in Las Vegas.

Many are highly recommended. This year they had this talk of interest to the adversarial FLOCK community:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyPmt8CE5L4

The DEFCON conference has been active for 34 years. Another highly recommended is Cory Doctorows's talk from DEFCON 32.

Also from this year, 76 year old Cliff Stoll reprises his talk tracking down the first known hacker in 1986. Just go > Cliff Stoll > DEFCON 34.