Abbott Suspends State Agency Funding for Flock Cameras

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to suspend funding for Flock cameras. The measure is not a blanket ban on their use by cities or police departments.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to suspend funding for Flock cameras. The measure is not a blanket ban on their use by cities or police departments.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld that a federal provision cannot, in this specific case, be applied to the private possession alone of obscene AI images of nonexistent minors.

The California Legislature approved AB 1856, which would exempt software distributed with rights to copy, redistribute, and modify it from age-signal requirements. The bill is not yet law.