A Washington Post investigation published in early August 2026 found that at least 50 law enforcement officers across the United States have been charged with or accused of misusing Flock’s automated license plate reader network, most often to track women they knew personally. In Mooresville, North Carolina, Officer Elizabeth Snowman was arrested and charged on...
Wayne County, PA commissioners certified $7.8 million in child welfare spending across two fiscal years while simultaneously submitting corrective action plans to the same state agency — acknowledging the work wasn't getting done. They hired an outside consultant at a rate they won't put in the public record, and their defense is that the violations are old.
Someone cut down two Flock surveillance cameras near a Lowe’s in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania on the Fourth of July. They taped an American flag to the pole. Pennsylvania State Police are investigating. No arrests have been made. It was not an isolated incident. Across the country, Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader cameras are being cut...
Wayne County commissioners gave ADA Brendan Ellis an award for never turning down a case. He prosecuted in front of his former law partner Judge Meagher for four years.
Northeast Pennsylvania awaits Stacy Garrity’s plan to ‘deal with’ data centers encroaching on the region’s power, land, and quality of life. Data centers are the defining issue in northeastern Pennsylvania right now. Not jobs. Not taxes. Not crime. The thing people show up to township meetings about, the thing filling comment sections and packing supervisors’...
A new 13-member commission, appointed entirely by council, will investigate discrimination complaints. It comes with $500 fines, no subpoena power, and no mandate from voters. By Vinnie Vetaducci | Pocono Review Luzerne County Council introduced an ordinance Tuesday night that would create a 13-member human relations commission. The body would investigate discrimination complaints filed by...
2026 Pennsylvania Governor’s Race Garrity vs. Shapiro: Side by Side on Every Issue They disagree on energy, abortion, marijuana, taxes and election integrity. On one issue, they don’t disagree at all. Vinnie Vetaducci · Pocono Review Republican Stacy Garrity State Treasurer · Challenger Democrat Josh Shapiro Governor · Incumbent Energy Garrity Natural gas first. Lift...
An analysis and opinion on the fracturing coalition behind Trump’s second term, and what the polling is really telling us about November. For most of the past decade, defection from Donald Trump has come almost exclusively from what could loosely be called the establishment wing of the Republican Party. Their break was ideological and, in...
Bayer paid PA $100 million for PCB damage. The Poconos got nothing. In September 2023, Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection quietly announced that Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant that bought Monsanto in 2018, would pay $100 million to settle claims that Monsanto contaminated 1,300 miles of Pennsylvania streams and 3,600 acres of lakes with PCBs...
Jessie White’s Connection to Shapiro May Be Just a Photo. Joe Bachman Can’t Say the Same. On July 21, 2026, FBI agents executed a search warrant at a home on the 1800 block of Vista Drive in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The resident was Jesse J. White, a former four-term Democratic state representative and disbarred attorney. According...