Daniel Vreeland

Senior Reporter, Policing, Washington

Daniel Vreeland covers the companies that sell surveillance tools to police and governments. He has reported on license plate camera networks, phone extraction and social media monitoring since 2016.

At The Overseen since Sept. 6, 2022 (4 years).

Stories

• June 2, 2026 Tellwright’s Murmur sorted protest organizers into a category called “threat actors”
• Oct. 7, 2025 Towns bought Kerbside cameras for their own streets. Police across the country can search them.
• March 18, 2025 Reporters’ phones show signs of Tellwright’s Handset remote collection