The city of Greer, South Carolina is suspending their Flock Safety Cameras program
Multiple officers have been found to be using the cameras for unauthorized searches and putting in fake reasons so the logs look legitimate
The cameras have been covered with plastic bags while they do a 90 day pause on their Flock cameras
- Cpl. Kareem Lynch (28) repeatedly searched the plate of a fellow officer he had previously been in a relationship with (a subordinate). He logged the searches as “welfare check” or “city planning.”
- Officer Sebastian Echeverry (29) searched plates of several residents over months and logged the reason as “Alcohol Offense Non-DUI.”
There was also another officer in South Carolina that who was fired after searching an ex’s plate roughly 170 times and logging false reasons like welfare check, warrant, traffic stop
@Demeter_Erinia I’m “record your favorite songs off the radio when they come on—shit—forgot to rewind the cassette so now it’s on a random part of the tape” old.
@jackunheard If you’re a true, Constitutional conservative, there is only one correct position on this. Benjamin Franklin spelled it out pretty clearly, but in more modern terms—GTFO of here with that shit.
@Mr_E_Studio@JackPosobiec Funny—happened to me too. So if you don’t trust the three letter agencies with that info, why would you trust them with having absolute surveillance over your comings and goings. I don’t argue the good intention of them, it’s the massive opening for later abuses.
A Kentucky officer ran 2,048 Flock camera searches to track the mother of his child. No warrant. No probable cause. No judge ever saw it.
The Fourth Amendment protects Americans against unreasonable searches, and retracing where someone drove for five months is a search. And it’s why I take issue with surveillance networks like Flock.
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@JackPosobiec Haven’t you learned anything over the last several years?! You’re putting this in the hands of a government that is corrupt at the very least, and in some cases, dangerously so.
@Cold_Operator@JackPosobiec This is just another way of saying “as long as it keeps me safe.” Most every initiative that the government has ever used against its own citizens started out with good intentions at one time. Feel free to study the Patriot Act and the FISA abuses that followed, for example.