When the ACLU filed its request, the Sarasota police were willing to turn over the records until the U.S. Marshals Service stepped in, seized the records and declared they owned the files because they had deputized a detective working on the case.

In 2014, Oakland signed a contract with Science Applications International Corporation to build its new Domain Awareness Center for $10.2 million in federal grant money, hoping to collate live data streams from traffic cameras, police license plate readers, gunshot detectors and other sources across Oakland. However, the company also paid $500 million in penalties to avoid federal prosecution for illegal kickbacks. Eventually, Oakland scaled down the project to the port area but port officials decided not to pay for staffing—meaning, oddly, that the facility is finished, but no one will watch the feeds.

So much WTF.