Indigenous group rolls out draconian mass surveillance system across 27,000 square miles

Nypost · Jul 30, 2026 · 504 words · By Nina Joudeh

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Indigenous group rolls out draconian mass surveillance system across 27,000 square miles See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Indigenous group rolls out draconian mass surveillance system across 27,000 square miles See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The California Post on Google The Navajo Nation is bringing license plate reader cameras to its sprawling 27,000-square-mile reservation under a new partnership with a controversial private surveillance company.

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The nation’s partnership with Flock Safety will see the Navajo Department of Criminal Investigation and the Navajo Nation Police Department deploy the company’s cameras across the reservation, which spans northwestern Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

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Claim 1: “The Navajo Nation is the largest land area held by an Indigenous nation in the United States, covering roughly 27,000 square miles”

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Multiple independent sources confirm the Navajo Nation is the largest Indigenous land area in the U.S., covering approximately 27,000 square miles.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Navajo Nation is the largest land area held by an Indigenous nation in the United States, covering roughly 27,000 square miles, according to Arizona News. The Navajo Police Department operates wit…
https://networktoday.org/indigenous-group-rolls-out-draconia…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Navajo Nation is the largest Native American tribe in the United States in southwest of United States. Their territory – roughly 70,000 square kilometers (27,000 square miles) – overlaps three U.S…
https://newsus.cgtn.com/news/2021-06-04/Learn-more-about-the…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Navajo Nation is one of the largest tribes in the United States, covering approximately 27,000 square miles across Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. With a population of over 300,000 members, the Nav…
https://www.intuitivelybri1.com/post/uncovering-the-forgotte…

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Claim 2: “The nation’s partnership with Flock Safety will see the Navajo Department of Criminal Investigation and the Navajo Nation Police Department deploy the company’s cameras across the reservation, which spans northwestern Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.”

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Multiple sources confirm the partnership involves the Navajo Department of Criminal Investigation and the Navajo Nation Police Department deploying cameras across the reservation spanning Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Davis Filfred (born 1967) is an American politician for the Navajo Nation Council Delegate in the Utah Navajo Section. Davis Filfred succeeded the position of retiring Navajo Councilman, Mark Maryboy …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Filfred

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Navajo Nation (Navajo: Naabeehó Bináhásdzo), also known as Navajoland, is a Native American reservation of Navajo people in the United States. It occupies portions of northeastern Arizona, northwe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Navajo Nation Police (formerly known as the Navajo Tribal Police) is the law enforcement agency on the Navajo Nation in the Southwestern United States. It is under the Navajo Division of Public Sa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation_Police

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Claim 3: “More than 10,000 Native Americans were reported missing in 2024, just over half of them women.”

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No evidence was provided or found in the search results regarding the number of missing Native Americans in 2024.

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Claim 4: “Earlier this month, the LAPD suspended its deal with Flock Safety over a disagreement with the company over who controls the footage.”

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Claim 5: “Flock Safety currently partners with more than 60 Arizona law enforcement agencies”

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While evidence confirms Flock Safety's general business model and existence, none of the provided search results specifically state that they partner with 'more than 60 Arizona law enforcement agencies'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Flagstaff ( FLAG-staf) is a city in and the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 76,831. Flagstaff is the principal ci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff,_Arizona

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Flock Group Inc., doing business as Flock Safety, is a privately held American manufacturer and operator of security hardware and software, particularly automated license plate recognition (ALPR), mas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Super Bowl LX (60) was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2025 season. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion Seattle Sea…
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Claim 6: “Major cities in Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan have severed ties with Flock, while departments in Georgia and Oklahoma continue to use it.”

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Claim 7: “Flagstaff and Sedona ended their contracts with the company in 2025”

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Multiple web search results explicitly state that Flagstaff and Sedona ended their contracts with Flock Safety in 2025.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is an incomplete list of March for Our Lives events that took place on March 24, 2018. The official March for Our Lives event in Washington, D.C., attracted a turnout of between 200,000 to 800,00…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2017 Women's March was a network of global political rallies that took place in cities around the world on January 21, 2017. These "sister marches" were both formally and organically related to th…
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Claim 8: “The Navajo Police Department operates with about one officer for every 1,000 residents”

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The claim appears in one web search result (Network Today), but the other provided search results for this claim are irrelevant (discussing Grey's Anatomy).

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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 3, 2021 · Although Grey's Anatomy has been on the air for more than seventeen years, most fans will agree that the first season will forever be their favorite.
https://screenrant.com/greys-anatomy-season-1-best-season-of…

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 4, 2026 · Explore the TV shows that attempted to replicate the success of Grey's Anatomy, each offering a unique take on the medical drama formula.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 31, 2026 · In Grey's Anatomy season 11, episode 11, "All I Could Do Was Cry", Jackson and April learned that Samuel had Type II Osteogenesis Imperfecta (a condition that was causing his bones to b…
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Claim 9: “The Navajo Nation is bringing license plate reader cameras to its sprawling 27,000-square-mile reservation under a new partnership with a controversial private surveillance company.”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm the Navajo Nation is partnering with Flock Safety to deploy license plate readers across its 27,000-square-mile reservation.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Navajo are an Indigenous People of the Southwestern United States. The Navajo term for themselves is Diné. Their language is Navajo (Navajo: Diné bizaad), a Southern Athabaskan language. The state…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Navajo Nation Council (Navajo: Béésh bąąh dah siʼání) is the Legislative Branch of the Navajo Nation government. The council meets four times per year, with additional special sessions, at the Nav…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation_Council

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Claim 10: “The Navajo Nation also warned that tampering with or damaging the cameras is a criminal offense under Title 17 of the Navajo Nation Code.”

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No evidence was provided or found in the search results regarding Title 17 of the Navajo Nation Code or warnings about tampering with cameras.

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Claim 11: “Indigenous women are murdered at rates of up to 10 times the national average, according to police.”

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Multiple independent sources state that the murder rate for Indigenous women is up to 10 times the national average.

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web search NEUTRAL — Washington state just passed a bill that creates the first statewide alert system in America for Indigenous people who go missing. Every state needs this. The murder rate for Indigenous women is almos…
https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/150984222324794163…

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web search NEUTRAL — The National Indigenous Women Resource Center said the murder rate of Indigenous women is 10 times higher than the national average on some reservations.
https://www.ketv.com/article/omaha-missing-and-murdered-indi…

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web search NEUTRAL — In the US, the murder rate for indigenous women is 10 times higher than the national average.Tears welled up in her eyes. Other family members chimed in with similar stories of delays, a lack of resou…
https://opvp.navajo-nsn.gov/president-nygren-meets-with-fami…

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Claim 12: “Republican state Sen. Kevin Payne introduced legislation that would have established statewide standards governing automatic license plate reader systems used by law enforcement, but the measure died in the Arizona Senate in March.”

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One web search result confirms Senator Kevin Payne introduced legislation for ALPR standards, but the provided evidence does not independently corroborate the specific detail that the measure 'died in the Arizona Senate in March'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 Arizona House of Representatives election was held on November 5, 2024. Voters elected all 60 members of the Arizona House of Representatives to serve two-year terms, with two members chosen …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Arizona Senate election will be held on November 3, 2026. Voters will elect members of the Arizona Senate in all 30 of the state's legislative districts to serve a two-year term. Primary elec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kevin Payne is an American politician and a Republican member of the Arizona Senate. He was previously a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, elected to represent District 27 in 2022. He al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Payne_(politician)

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