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A Florida woman who was wrongfully arrested and held in jail for nearly two weeks in connection to a deadly hit-and-run shared her story with U.S. Congress members. Lindsey Isaacs addressed the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday, part of its hearing, called "Always Watching: Flock's Nationwide AI Surveillance Network." What they're saying: "I came here today because I want you to understand that surveillance technology does not exist in a vacuum. Information collected by technology can become part of an investigation that affects a real human being," she said. She's talking about her own story....

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods had zero patience for media games Thursday when a reporter tried to hijack a press conference about a major child predator sting to ask about an unrelated Florida Highway Patrol lawsuit. The press conference was called to announce the results of “Operation Bad Habits,” a six-day undercover operation conducted in early June that resulted in 58 child predators being taken off the streets, the largest such sting in Marion County history. Detectives posed online as children ranging from 7 to 15 years old (and sometimes as parents) to lure sickos looking to meet kids for...