Doug MacMillan

@dmac1

Investigative reporter @washingtonpost. Formerly @WSJ @Bloomberg @BW. Same thing we do every night, Pinky 🐭 Signal: douglasmac.02

Washington, D.C. washingtonpost.com/people/douglas… Joined August 2008

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Doug MacMillan @dmac1 Nov 2

After more than seven years on The Washington Post’s business desk, I’m joining the Investigations team as a rapid-response reporter. Thrilled to tackle challenging stories on a wide range of topics in the news.

Reach me on Signal: douglasmac.02

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Doug MacMillan @dmac1 Aug 20

These cops misused your service for years and went undetected by their departments, who never did audits. They only took action after journalists read the audit logs and flagged the suspicious use to the departments. Which part of catching these cops is Flock taking credit for?

Rahul Sidhu Verified account @rahul Aug 19

You're going to see more stories about Flock catching bad cops misuse the database. We're the only company in the industry with this level of auditing at scale. If the others had this level of auditing, you'd see a lot more stories about cops abusing DMV data, etc.
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Doug MacMillan @dmac1 Aug 19

Police departments are not regularly auditing how their officers use Flock, a powerful surveillance network -- so we did it for them. Three cops are now being investigated and one was arrested as a result of our inquiries.

Here's how we did it... 🧵

Doug MacMillan @dmac1 Jul 16

DHS Inspector General is hiring a contractor to inspect ICE detention facilities, noting recent expansion "has stressed the system" leading to overcrowding, more detainee deaths and hiring of contractors "with little-to-no experience" sam.gov/workspace/cont… h/t @aaronjschaffer

Doug MacMillan @dmac1 Jul 11

ICE detention charges up to 2X what you'd pay at Walmart for the same products