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Sydney Mayor Says His Children Were Secretly Filmed After He Refused to Quit
A corruption inquiry in New South Wales has heard that a former mayor was allegedly followed, threatened, and had his children recorded without his knowledge when he would not honour a deal to stand aside.
Cities That Ditched Flock Cameras Are Still Under Surveillance
Activists who won fights against one licence-plate tracking company are discovering their local governments simply switched to a different vendor, and the cameras stayed up.
Malware Rode Into a Texas Police Server Inside Body Camera Footage
A hidden virus hitched a ride on police body-cam video and spread through the justice chain. The real problem is a funding gap that leaves front-line officers without the cyber basics they need.
A Local Housing Authority Lost $1 Million to Email Fraud. Here Is What It Did Next.
A cybersecurity consultant's account of how a small government agency rebuilt its defences after criminals silently rerouted a wire transfer offers a practical road map for the thousands of local bodies running on skeleton IT crews.
Seven Arrested Over Alleged Council Fraud in Shepparton as Police Probe Four-Year Scheme
Greater Shepparton City Council referred its own employees to police after internal checks flagged suspicious financial activity stretching back to 2022.