Big Brother is watching you a little less in Arizona after yesterday’s news. Here’s what we’re monitoring (with your digital consent) today.

•The city of Tempe shut off all 33 of its Flock camera license-plate readers on Aug. 26, and won’t replace them with another vendor. It’s also ending its license-plate pilot with Axon. Cave Creek separately terminated its Flock contract immediately, saying the network’s ability to share data with outside agencies means local privacy safeguards can’t actually protect residents once the information leaves town control. Cave Creek initially planned a Sept. 15 policy debate but abandoned that after stories of Flock abuse both locally and nationally. Also, someone stole a camera at 32nd Street and Carefree Highway.

Surprise, Pinal County, and Chandler are also ending their Flock programs. Surprise in particular highlighted a software “anomaly” that made it look like an officer was repeatedly searching one vehicle for multiple violations, though it’s cleared the officer of wrongdoing. Flock “lacks the adequate guardrails in place to prohibit misuse at this time,” Surprise councilman Jack Hastings posted on social media. Flock, we barely knew you, thank goodness.

•The Tohono O’odham Nation says armed, masked Customs and Border Protection agents, along with other federal personnel (about 20 people in total) entered tribal land with wall contractors early Aug. 25 to conduct pre-construction work at three sites despite the tribe’s no-trespassing order. More significantly, tribal leaders say CBP established a vehicle blockade preventing Tohono O’odham police from removing contractors or issuing citations. CBP says a federal court has allowed the project to proceed and it is acting under lawful authority. We’ll be following this story in the coming weeks.

•Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a fresh lawsuit over the new US Postal Service mail-ballot rule yesterday. On Aug. 26, Mayes joined a multistate suit challenging USPS’s now-final rule and asked for a temporary restraining order. The states argue USPS can’t require them to provide mail-voter lists and comply with federal ballot-envelope requirements as a condition of carrying election mail. The Supreme Court’s earlier ruling was procedural; the final USPS rule gives the states a concrete policy to challenge. A federal hearing is scheduled for Sept. 3. Ironically, no one gets to vote on the ruling.

•In the “lonely lectern” category, Congressional 5th district Democratic nominee Elizabeth Lee debated herself in Scottsdale last night, as her opponent, Republican Mark Lamb, declined to appear. They’re vying for Rep. Andy Biggs’ seat as Biggs runs for governor. Lee criticized Lamb on ideological grounds–she’s a former Republican who now calls herself a progressive and he’s a Trump-endorsed conservative and former Pinal County sheriff. But she focused her post-event comments on sexting and infidelity accusations that surfaced against Lamb in May. She also highlighted the fact that he seems to spend a lot of time on his $3 million ranch in Tennessee, where he says he intends to “retire” and has been campaigning from this summer.

“He wants us to believe that the American Dream is a $3 million dollar ranch, 1,500 miles away from here. That’s not what we’re hearing at the doors,” Lee said. “People are worried about how to get a first house, let alone bragging about the second one.”