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Shaker Heights changes Flock camera policy after probe finds hundreds of outside immigration searches

News 5 Cleveland · Drew Scofield, Tara Morgan, Mark Ackerman · May 13, 2026

A News 5 Cleveland investigation of Shaker Heights Flock audit logs revealed 282 immigration-related searches by outside agencies over four months, with 187 in January alone. Shaker Heights data was searched 693,573 times by external agencies versus just 1,016 times by local police, prompting the city to ban immigration-related queries—though activists called the keyword-only ban inadequate.

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