Florida Just Banned License Plate Readers From State Roads. A Texas Deputy Had Already Used the Same Company's Cameras -- 83,000 of Them, Nationwide -- to Track Down a Woman Who'd Had an Abortion.
September 8, 2026
Miami Beach's mayor wants to spend $50,000 routing around Florida's new ban by putting license plate readers on private property instead. That workaround only makes sense once…
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A 1967 Database Made Sure Your Record Never Stays Local. A 2003 Supreme Court Ruling Made Sure the Debt Is Never Paid Off. One Industry Opted Out of Both, for Itself.
September 7, 2026
Three separate decisions, seven decades apart, add up to the same result: reinvention stopped being available to almost everyone in America. A federal database ended distance as…
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For 56 Years, Disney Ran Its Own Government — Fire Department, Building Codes, Zoning, All of It. The State Took It Back in 2023.
August 23, 2026
For 56 years, Disney World ran its own local government inside Florida -- its own zoning, building codes, fire department, roads, and utilities, largely exempt from the rules…
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