By Dana Wormald | Editor
Good morning, New Hampshire, and welcome to Thursday. Today, Ethan DeWitt reports on why some states are looking at New Hampshire as a model when it comes to Flock cameras. In the Thursday commentary, Maggie Hassan touts an award for bipartisanship that doesn’t seem like much of an honor these days. And, from Stateline’s Kevin Hardy, tens of thousands of Americans are losing access to food assistance each month in the wake of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Thank you for reading, and for supporting our work. — Dana
A police officer uses the Flock Safety license plate reader system. Since 2016, the Granite State has had one of the strictest laws in the country regulating and limiting such readers. (Photo courtesy of Flock Safety)
By Ethan DeWitt
Since 2016, the Granite State has had one of the strictest laws in the country regulating and limiting automated license plate readers. The result: While license plate-tracking cameras from companies like Flock, Axon, and Motorola Solutions have proliferated in other states in recent years, New Hampshire’s years-old law appears to have prevented those companies from establishing a foothold here. Now, as bipartisan opposition has led states such as Florida, Arizona, Connecticut, and South Dakota to seek to restrict the cameras, New Hampshire has provided a possible template.
U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan speaks at a press conference on June 25, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., is at right. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)
COMMENTARY
By Dana Wormald
“This is what (U.S. Sen. Maggie) Hassan and the rest of New Hampshire’s congressional delegation don’t seem to understand. While a lot of their constituents (myself included) are grateful they are not among the politicians throwing gasoline on the vast dumpster fire that is this American moment, now is not exactly the time to be taking a bipartisan victory lap. It’s great that they’re trying to douse the inferno with their chilled bottles of spring water and everything, but it would be a whole lot better, for everybody, if they tried a little harder to wrest the gas cans away from the arsonists.”
By Kevin Hardy
More than 5 million people have lost food stamps since the enactment last July of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut taxes and federal safety net programs. The law changed SNAP eligibility rules, ended certain work requirement exemptions, and shifted new costs to states that administer the federal program.
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