🌱 How Deer Park police responded to Flock camera misuse concerns

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• How Deer Park police responded to Flock camera misuse concerns

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

• Houston-area Flock Camera Scrutiny Grows as Two More Agencies Take Action (texasscorecard.com) — Deer Park residents should know their police department disciplined an officer for misusing Flock license plate cameras and has now created a public transparency portal so you can better see how the system is used. The story also details broader Houston-area and statewide scrutiny of Flock technology, including new audits, protests, and potential legislative guardrails on license plate readers.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Brown & Root posted a job opening for Combination Welder in Deer Park. Apply here.
• Turner Industries posted a job opening for Combination Welder - Pasadena, TX in Pasadena. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Deer Park here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Pasadena

• Pasadena police Chief MP Jackson retiring amid scrutiny over officer conduct and disputed disciplinary records (click2houston.com)
• Special: Company at Pasadena Little Theatre in HOUSTON (broadwayworld.com)
• How family-owned grocery stores in Houston helped communities thrive (houstonchronicle.com)

La Porte

• Former Shoreacres community invited to La Porte Police town hall tonight at 6pm. (pasadenian.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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