Hollywood PD put in writing that it didn't know its own plate readers had a whitelist feature

https://reddit.com/link/1vnmhki/video/31yliv6lb7jh1/player

I teach Continuing Legal Education (CLE) classes to lawyers on how to weaponize public records, and I file these requests for a living. On August 13, Hollywood PD answered mine about its plate readers. You know, FLOCK.

Eleven items. Every answer some version of no.
That reads like a loss.
It wasn't, it was intentional.
Read the wording.

• Item 6 asked whether anyone had discussed the plate-reader whitelist feature with a vendor. Answer, signed by Records Technician Andrea Caamano: this request was the first knowledge they had the feature exists.
• Item 9 asked for the contract on the ALPR product in use. Answer: no contracts, order forms, or SOW.

A Broward agency runs plate readers every day and put in writing that it can't account for the hardware or its own system's capabilities.

Neither answer is a suppression log. Both are better. I built the request so the absence of records became the finding — and Hollywood signed it onto its own letterhead.

Ninety-nine of a hundred requests are built like treasure hunts: wide net, toss a grenade, hope something surfaces, custodian says "no responsive records," closes the file. Target practice is the opposite. You name the record that has to exist if the agency followed its own rules. Production and "no records" both land as findings.

This is the Stevens Method. It's sent three Deerfield Beach elected officials to jail and forced DeSantis to change his book-ban law.

The Deerfield camera nobody will claim is next. That story on Substack.