Concerns Grow over Flock Safety Cameras in New Hanover County
- The El Cerrito Police Department will remove its 40 Flock Safety surveillance cameras between Thursday and mid-August, following a City Council vote in May to cancel the contract over privacy concerns.
- Flock Safety operates 120,000 automated license plate readers across the U.S., but critics argue the mass data collection constitutes warrantless surveillance of law-abiding citizens, and reports indicate officers have misused the system to stalk individuals.
- The American Civil Liberties Union launched the 'Get the Flock Out' campaign this month to raise awareness, while residents like Bud Glassner call the cameras 'terrifying' and warn they enable tracking of immigrants through data shared with ICE.
- Dozens of Flock cameras have been forcibly disabled in recent weeks, with reports documenting police officers using the system to harass ex-partners; a 19-year-old Florida college student was charged in an anti-surveillance vandalism spree.
- U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie introduced legislation to strip federal funding from agencies using Flock technology, as municipalities nationwide reconsider contracts amid the ongoing debate over balancing public safety with constitutional privacy rights.
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Those That Resist Unconstitutional Flock Cameras Are “De-Flock Domestic Terrorists” – CEO Of Flock Cameras
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety,” -Benjamin Franklin Ever since September 11, 2001, we have seen the conglomeration of unconstitutional agencies being erected by this government only to be leveled against the American people (Isaiah 28:18). After doing so, they even went so...
Concerns grow over Flock Safety cameras in New Hanover County
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WWAY) — Some New Hanover County residents and local leaders are raising questions about the use and oversight of Flock Safety license plate-reading cameras. Mark Williams, an attorney at Rice Law Firm and founder of De-Flock ILM, said he began looking into the technology after noticing one of the cameras while driving to work. “I stumbled on the Flock cameras driving to work one day and I saw this pole with the solar pa…
By T.M. Brown, CNN In recent months, people have shot down surveillance cameras owned by the Flock Safety company in northern New York State, throwing paint at them in Oakland, California, and hitting them with a van in Idaho. In Florida, a man sits in The Post Flock cameras face a growing wave of rejection across the United States appeared first on KVIA.
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