The Texas sheriff’s office that used Flock to search more than 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had a self-administered abortion used
Axon’s Draft One AI tool
to help write a police report about the incident, documents shared with 404 Media show. The tool was used in part to summarize a discussion of “the legal implications of the situation.”
404 Media first reported on the incident in May 2025 in which the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas
searched Flock’s nationwide
network for the whereabouts of a woman who self-administered an abortion, highlighting the threat of this AI-powered surveillance system being used to criminalize or track women seeking reproductive healthcare. The use of both Flock and Axon’s Draft One, which uses audio from body camera footage to automatically draft police reports using artificial intelligence, shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.
“I acknowledge this report was generated using Draft One by Axon,” a section of the report reads.
Redactions by 404 Media, who is not naming the woman.
The abortion case has since become a flashpoint in the controversy over the use of Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras. Flock’s CEO, Garrett Langley, has
repeatedly and erroneously suggested
that 404 Media misreported the case and that the search was done only for the woman’s safety because her family was worried about her. 404 Media previously
reported that the entire police investigation
was done at the behest of the woman’s abusive partner and that police discussed whether they were allowed to charge her with a crime: “It was discussed at the time with the District Attorney’s office and learned the State could not statutorily charge [the woman] for taking the pill to cause the abortion,” a police report previously obtained by the
Electronic Frontier Foundation
and
shared with 404 Media said
. Concern from her family is never mentioned in
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