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DEAD RECKONING: Reno is quitting Flock. The cameras are staying.

Reno’s surveillance fight ends in a conditional $21.8 million Axon deal. Plus: a heat ray for border testing, police warnings about public meetings, and the money Oklahoma expects to make from immigration detention.

Matt Stroud
Matt Stroud
DEAD RECKONING: Reno is quitting Flock. The cameras are staying.
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