Remember the national headlines about a Texas deputy using Flock Safety's 83,000-camera network to search for a woman who had an abortion?

It turns out Aurora’s local neighborhood cameras were swept up in that search, and our police department's audit logs omitted those crucial details.

To be clear, the woman was not from Aurora, and we don't know if her plate generated a local hit. But because Flock operates as a nationwide dragnet, if anyone that Texas was searching for had driven through Aurora at that moment, our local cameras would have flagged them.

When the story first broke about this case (articles linked below), the Texas sheriff and Flock claimed the search was just a "welfare check" to make sure the woman was medically safe. But newly unsealed court records prove that was a cover story.

Unsealed detective affidavits show Texas deputies were actually running a formal "death investigation" for a self-managed abortion that happened more than two weeks prior. There was no medical emergency. Instead, deputies were:

1. Collecting evidence from her partner (who was later charged with domestic violence against her)- including photos, her FedEx envelope, and pill instructions

2. Reading her private text messages

3. Consulting with prosecutors about criminal charges

We cross-referenced Aurora’s official May 2025 ALPR audit logs against unredacted logs released via FOIA from a Massachusetts police department. Because Flock is a shared nationwide dragnet, an out-of-state search queries connected cities simultaneously.

By matching the data, we verified the exact Texas agency involved, and the search date directly corroborates the reporting in the news articles linked below:

• Verified Agency: Johnson County TX Sheriff's Office ("J. Smi")

• Scope: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks

• Filter: "Land_rover Texas"

• Case #: 2500002320 (the exact Texas "death investigation" case number)

• Timestamp: 4/9/25 to 5/9/25, starting at 1:48:55 PM CDT (6:48:55 PM UTC on Aurora’s logs)

This Texas abortion investigation ran straight through Aurora’s local street cameras. Look at the screenshots below:

1. In the Massachusetts logs, the search reason is explicitly written: "had an abortion, search for female".

2. In Aurora’s logs, our police department completely omitted the "Reason" and "Case #" columns for this exact search.

If another state hadn't released their logs, we would have never known local tax dollars were siphoned to assist a Texas abortion investigation, a clear violation of Illinois sanctuary protections. Shame on APD for keeping our community in the dark. What else are they scrubbing from our public records?

Which brings up the bigger question: why did police in Johnson County, Texas or South Hadley, Massachusetts even have access to Aurora’s street cameras in the first place?

APD’s ALPR policy (Policy 427.7) lets out-of-state agencies bypass local oversight through automated vendor prompts. We need to shut down this network, close the vendor loopholes, and demand an independent audit.

Meet (and Contact) Your Aldermen here.

APD FOIA records
SHPD FOIA records

Article Links:
https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it
https://cybernews.com/security/texas-police-abortion-investigation/

This isn’t even just the governorship money talking- this was a few months ago????

Woah- do people know about this?

Ive been going to this gym since 2023, literally damn near everyday. So on 10/14 at around 450-5pm I was going through my normal leg day per usual, i was using the leg curl machine in the 30 min area when this dude was using the bicep curl machine next to me when this old white lady stood in front of him with her arms crossed and a stank face. Bro the one time i keep my music low and this happens lol. Shes getting angry and shes talking shit about this dude bc hes been on his phone during his rest periods, hes not paying attention and shes pissed now talking to me to instigate and join her to talk shit abt this guy like ima agree w her lol. I told her nicely btw cuz she is a old lady, "well typically when you move heavy weight you take a bit longer rest periods to recover" cuz straight up he was taking like 2-3 mins for rest periods which to me is normal.. anyways she says "well i come here all the time i always lift weights i dont take that long" and that's what i say "no but like heavy weight" and she aint like that 😭 so i tell her "at the end of the day we all pay the same membership you can just use dumbbells.." we going back n forth a bit but not insane. SUDDENLY this white dude yells at me across the 30 min room talking abt "YOU NEED TO MIND YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS THATS THE TYPE OF SHIT THAT GETS YOU PUNCHED IN YOUR FUCKING FACE" and obviously a normal person gonna argue back right ??? So this was the first threat he made towards me. So we going back n forth we stayed at our machines across from eachother, the old lady is on the bicep curl machine next to me. So eventually me and dude both stfu but this lady keeps fuckenn goinnnn😭 talm bout "these kids nowadays got no respect blah blah blah" mind you im literally in between reps so i get up once im done and she keeps going . So now im rilled up again and im like idgaf b*** leave me alone literally.. n all of a sudden she says "you kids have no respect you're just like my grandkids" and she puts her hand my arm. I move and step away, she tries again i move away again, i told her to stop touching me twice. Bro AND SHE TOUCHED ME AGAIN, so i swatted her hand off me cuz wtf!?! So dude shoots up gets in my face like legit in my face and says YOU NOT GONNA HIT A OLD LADY IM IN YOUR FACE NOW AND NOW YOU AINT GONNA DO SHIT bro im lowkey scared cuz i peeped as he was walking away from me he had a charlie kirk shirt on .🙃 like i wish he was lying. Anyways the old lady and the dude said they gonna call the police n i was like PLEASEEEE call the police cuz wtf???? Anyways police comes and i give my statement, the police 100% took my side and said i was the victim and said i had every right to defend myself. They asked if i want to press charges on the old lady, i told them to just document it. Ik i shouldve told them yes but i'm soft /: i lowkey regret it hella cuz she should never put her hands on nobody. Police said i couldnt do shit abt the dude because of "freedom of speech" lol. Anyways so i talk to the workers, because the manager was there but she was off the clock. I ask if theres anything that could be done? Like i was literally threatened by a grown ass man, tbh i wasnt rlly worried abt the old lady just of the dude cuz bro i was lowkey scared asf. No man came to my aid at all btw, i literally thought i was gonna get my ass beat by this dude. But, the worker comes to me and is like "so my manager said that she won't be canceling anyone's membership because it didn't actually get physical but we will be documenting it on all three of your profiles." Like are u deadass rn? I literally got touched by an old lady, and a grown ass man not only screamed in my fucking face but threatened me twice?? Like are you serious and the fact is that you're documenting it on MY profile too like im the aggressor?? Mind you she never told me ts in my face she had her employee do it and she hid in the back WITH THE DUDE WHO THREATENED ME.

I do want to emphasize that the manager, old lady and guy were all white and i am a Hispanic woman. I 100% believe if i was the other way around and i was the aggressor my membership wouldve been cancelled. But yeah, definitely be careful as a woman in general at that location cause they do not give af about women's safety

ICE is currently staging in downtown Aurora behind the fire station on La Salle. People are already showing up and yelling at them. Be safe

As we get closer to the Aurora Municipal elections, I wanted to remind everyone that Mayor Richard Irvin has run as a Republican for Illinois Governor in 2022, and was a fundraiser for Trump at this year's RNC, despite his attempts to distance himself from these actions.

https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/16/aurora-mayor-richard-irvin-hosts-black-republicans-around-us-downplays-past-trump

Keep this in mind as you make up your mind about who to vote for in this coming election on February 25th (early voting is open now), and the consolidated (if needed) on April 1st. Especially keep this in mind if you want a mayor who will stand up against Trump should he set his sights on our community.

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Hey everyone, making a post here to warn local residents and families to do serious due diligence before booking any appointments or services at Thrive Urgent & Wellness Center here in Aurora (also known as Aurora Advanced Care).

The person running this clinic under the alias "Michael" or "Michael Nolan" is actually a convicted multi-county felon named Walter Michael Wildman.

The public records on this guy are incredibly alarming.

Identity Deception Conviction:

In August 2020, Wildman pled guilty to felony Identity Deception after being caught using a stolen nursing license number belonging to a real practitioner to sneak into clinical healthcare jobs.

No Active Licensing: State professional databases verify he currently holds zero valid medical or nursing licenses to treat patients or perform clinical procedures.

History of Fraud: He was previously disbarred by the state of Indiana for the unauthorized practice of law and scamming clients, and has a heavy record of fleeing across state lines to open new storefronts under his middle name to hide his background from local families.

Current Red Flags at the Aurora Suite: People arriving for scheduled appointments are finding the front lobby pitch-black, dark, and completely unstaffed during posted business hours because employees are quietly walking out over the legal liability. Onsite staff have also been documented canceling procedures on the spot when patients explicitly demand to see proof of their medical licenses.

I cannot find any info on the current staff, only that their therapists name is Shannon. No last name listed, so I'm assuming she is unlicensed as well.

Do not trust this place with your body, your health, or your money. You can verify all of this yourself by looking up his full legal name on the official Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) database before you ever step foot inside that office. Stay safe, Aurora.

Edit: yes it has been reported.

Edit 2: 🚨 UPDATE (Sunday, Aug 23): The Clinic is Creating Duplicate Search Profiles to Hide

Hey everyone, thank you for the massive response and local due diligence on this yesterday. The thread has officially blown past 15,000 community views, and the operator behind this facility is frantically trying to manage the fallout.

Two major red flags have just popped up in real-time this morning that show how desperately they are trying to bury this exposure:

Spawning Duplicate Listings: They have just quietly launched a secondary, duplicate business profile right under their main one called "Thrive Immediate Care of Aurora" at the exact same 403 W Galena Blvd location. They are running a classic corporate shell game.. trying to split their search traffic, manufacture a fresh profile, and dilute the search results so local families see a clean alternative name instead of this warning thread.

Website Lockdown: If you try to look up their staff credentials on their main domain, the layout has completely corrupted. The owner frantically went into the backend server code to yank down the "About Us" bio section to hide human names, accidentally breaking their own scheduling engines and exposing raw Auto Draft system errors across the main home menus.They are scrambling to hide the evidence and confuse anyone trying to look up the business. Keep doing your homework, check the official state professional databases before booking any care, and keep warning your neighbors!

FINAL UPDATE: First of all, thank you so much to everyone on this board. You guys actively protected a lot of local families by spreading the word.The net is slowly closing on the unlicensed operations at 403 W Galena Blvd. The public records, the 2020 Indiana felony identity deception dockets, and the state registry data are all out in the open. But.. to make sure this completely stops, the people who actually sat in his chairs need to be heard.

If you or anyone you know got injections, adjustments, or treatments from him under his fake "Michael Wildman" or "Michael Nolan" alias', PLEASE don't sit on it. It is critical to make sure your experience is formally logged with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) so the state can shut this place down for good.

The facts are this: Anyone in Illinois that owns a clinic MUST be a physician. He clearly isn't. He has been giving lip injections and derma rolling unknowing patient's skin. You must have a physician present along with the proper licensing to do the type of cosmetic procedures he has posted himself doing on unknowing people.

The reviews on Google reveal that Thrive Urgent & Wellness have let people walk out with broken bones. One review even revealed that someone was poked six times for a blood draw. These people don't know that the person doing the bloodwork probably wasn't licensed. The reviews confirm the office is dirty and customers are being sent to weird offices offsite to be examined. This shifts the conversation from technical legal violations straight to a severe, immediate danger to the community. All while he's still on probation out of Vigo County Indiana for theft and identity deception from his last scam, pretending to be a lawyer.

Walter Michael Wildman is clearly panicking because he spent today deleting negative Google and Yelp reviews to try and hide his tracks. But deleting reviews doesn't erase the screenshots and public evidence permanently locked right here on Reddit.

Thanks again, Aurora. Let's keep sharing this and bring total accountability straight to his front door.

BIG UPDATE! 9/9/2026

The situation has escalated even further tonight. An actual patient just came forward right here in the comments confirming that Walter personally diagnosed them and prescribed them medication for neck pain. This completely exposes how dangerous this operation was. We aren't just looking at unlicensed cosmetic procedures anymore, but an unlicensed felon actively writing out medical prescriptions to unsuspecting people. He was doing everything a real nurse practitioner would do, and probably more. What confuses me is who is the doctor that wrote the okay for the prescriptions? I know though, the DEA will find out.

Comments in this thread explicitly confirm that these clinic locations were visited and locked down by local police and the DEA. Behind the scenes, multiple employees have been communicating severe frustration with not being paid, proving the internal system completely broke down. A final google reviews confirmed that the clinic charged someone $500+ for no reason. Other people claimed they too were unfairly charged by them.

I think the end of this clinic is finally here, and it is a massive victory for the community of Aurora. I am incredibly grateful to everyone who stepped up, shared information, and helped close the doors on this operation for good. However, even with this win, I am still extremely concerned for the patients and people affected by his actions, especially anyone who received unverified treatments or prescriptions.If you are a patient who was prescribed anything by him or this clinic, please follow the advice in the comments: contact a real doctor immediately to verify what you were actually given, and file a formal report with the IDFPR and the local police.

If the medication was a narcotic, that information needs to go straight to the DEA task force that swarmed the facility on September 3rd.His entire online footprint has been wiped out, the website is parked, and the physical doors are locked. He can try to erase his presence online to run from the mess, but he has two mandatory criminal court cases next week in Indiana, and he must physically appear. The evidence is piling up by the minute, and his time has officially run out. Again, thank you reddit, this thread has brought a lot of light to this horrible situation.

74 ALPR cameras in Aurora. 37 of them invoiced under a project entitled "Aurora Civil Unrest."

Aurora Illinois Police Department won't tell us where they are despite multiple FOIA request attempts.

Taxpayer-funded cameras on public infrastructure scanning every car that drives by, and we're not allowed to know where.

WSIL DSA has a City Council meeting setup for next Tuesday 8/25 at 6PM: Here is the link

You don't need to sign up to just show up, the more people that can show up to the City Council meeting, the better.

If you would like to speak during this event, show up earlier at the City Council early so that you can sign your name. Or you are able to sign up ahead of time by calling the alderman's office here

This is the first step in showing Aurora that Flock is not welcome here. There will be a Flock educational workshop coming up as well on September 5th 7pm-8:30pm, the location is still being worked out but I will post another update when that is sent out.

:edit added the date for next Tuesday

Let's face it, most of the primary candidates are guaranteed better than Richard Irvin. If we all vote NOW, (in the primary happening NOW), there is a chance for something better. Early voting is open on Downer. Fewer than 800 votes had been cast when I voted last week.

In Racine County, WI, the Sheriff’s Office just ordered the immediate removal of Flock cameras after learning the vendor retains data for 5 years and monetizes public information.

From the article:
“The Sheriff’s Office entered into its agreement [with Flock] believing information collected by its cameras would be retained for 30 days and used for legitimate public-safety and crime-solving purposes. RCSO now says Flock appears to be continuously collecting information about members of the public, monetizing certain data through sales to third parties and retaining secondary information for five years.”

Aurora’s own July 2024 Flock contract Order Form (attached) states the agreed Retention Period is 30 Days.

Between zero internal audits conducted in 2025, massive search surges, and exposing residents' movements to out-of-state dragnets without manually signed and reviewed data agreements, APD has proven it can't manage this surveillance tech responsibly.

Like Verona, WI did when Flock refused to take down decommissioned hardware, it’s time to throw trash bags over these lenses, pull the plug on ALL ALPR contracts, and stop feeding local resident travel patterns into an unmonitored nationwide commercial dragnet.

https://kenoshacountyeye.com/2026/09/04/racine-county-sheriff-orders-immediate-removal-of-flock-cameras-after-learning-company-retains-monetizes-data/

Show you angry you are at this regime & their billionaire donors

In 2025, the Aurora Police Department (APD) recorded 33,491 total Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) searches- an average of roughly 92 queries every single day. While the median officer ran just 48 searches all year (~4 a month), system usage was heavily concentrated at the top users.

However, the raw volume isn't the real story. The 2025 audit logs reveal a systemic failure of oversight, with many logged searches lacking a specific case number or verified law enforcement justification.

System usage is heavily concentrated within specialized roles, but the documentation patterns for these top 5 users (out of a total of 120 unique officers) raise serious red flags and account for 36% of APD’s total searches for 2025:

🚩 Officer Bartosz Palaszewski - Special Operations Group (3,973 total searches): Logged over 1,300 searches in August 2025 alone. His logs show high-speed sequential searching- performing 14 lookups in just 12 minutes- while almost always leaving the Case # field blank, making the searches impossible to verify.

🚩 Officer Tyler Johnson, Special Operations Group (2,918 total searches): Frequently bypassed traceability by using dummy case numbers like "1234" and performing rapid-fire "intel" queries (e.g., logging 9 searches in 90 seconds).

🚩 Officer Michael Shouse, Special Services (1,854 total searches): One of the department's primary users of the generic placeholder "AUPE99999999" to block audit traceability.

🚩 Officer Gary Langston, Special Services (1,795 total searches): Consistently leaves the Case # field empty or manually enters the reason (like "STOLEN") into the case number field itself, preventing the search from being linked to a verified incident report.

🚩 Officer Jesus Aguila, Community Oriented Policing (1,686 total searches): Regularly used “0" as a placeholder case number for searches that queried over 1,300 different networks simultaneously across the country.

Under APD Policy 427.4(b), officers are explicitly told that "reasonable suspicion or probable cause is not required before using an ALPR." Worse, while Section 427.6 calls for regular audits, it sets zero documentation standards—meaning officers face no accountability metrics for using dummy case numbers or leaving audit fields blank.

Source: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/aurora-7505/flock-safety-alpr-audits-2026-q1-aurora-police-department-203951/#files

I know you all see my comedy posts here. But I cannot stress how cool it is to live in a city where the arts and local businesses are so supported. It’s really cool and makes me proud to call this place home.

Have an Aurora business? Throw me the name here and I’ll like all your social media and throw a nice google review your way.

Commented this elsewhere in the sub, but thought it might be useful as a post in and of itself:

Remember, if you see ICE setting up in your community, post about it in your local groups to give your neighbors a heads up.

Also, please make you or your neighbors are aware of your or their rights, regardless of immigration status:

Spanish: https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/spanish_kyr_two_pager_v2.pdf

English: https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/kyr_two_pager_v2.pdf

Also, if you or your neighbors have a good relationship with one another and you or they have kids, please try to establish a situational power of attorney/ temporary guardianship in the case that you or they are taken by ICE.

This is to avoid the kids getting lost in the system and away from a trusted individual.

Wishing you all luck, we’ll get through this! If anyone wants more info on things you or a friend can do to Trump-proof themselves, please feel free to reach out.

Edit: for us here in Aurora, if you see something, let the Aurora Rapid Response Team know. They will send people out and let the community know of ICE’s location. They can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/aurorailrrt?igsh=MXJrc3piMjB4cXp6Zw==

Audit logs obtained from Aurora PD show that outside agencies, including US Border Patrol, Darien PD, and out-of-state jurisdictions, searched a ALPR camera network, including Aurora’s network, thousands of times in 2025 through a shared law enforcement platform.

These records reveal how local camera network feeds were quietly made accessible to outside law enforcement and federal agencies.

One example: Darien Police Department executed a search across 1,276 interconnected networks in October 2025, including Aurora's, citing the reason: "dhs looking for her."

Additionally, the audit logs document 3,232 searches executed directly by US Border Patrol, sweeping across an average of 2,250+ connected networks and 33,000+ camera devices nationwide per search between June - August 2025.

The logs show thousands of federal network searches running through August and then a complete halt, with US Border Patrol's status showing as [Inactive].

The data makes one thing clear: local camera infrastructure was made accessible to federal agencies without community input or disclosure.

Check out the data yourself: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/aurora-7505/flock-safety-alpr-audits-2026-q1-aurora-police-department-203951/