🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!!
Over 100 Flock cameras that were set to "go dark" at the end of June after city council voted to shut them down...
...have bizarrely just REMAINED ON and the police are still using them
On June 17, the city council's safety committee voted to END the contract because when they asked police to prove these cameras actually reduce crime, the police could point to only 3 cases that led to convictions.
So the city council let the contract expire on June 29th, but then people noticed the cameras were still up...
...because Flock VOLUNTEERED to keep running them for FREE while the city "figures it out."
In fact, police confirmed they are still running them to "keep the community safe" and the company agreed to keep the system live, despite the contract expiring.
It gets worse.
When reporters asked simple questions like... is data still being collected? Do the cameras shut off or keep recording? Who can access what was already stored? It turned out that neither the city NOR Flock would answer.
So just to recap:
The contract is expired.
The elected body said no.
Nobody re-authorized it.
Flock won't say what it's doing with the data.
...but the cameras are STILL ON and being used by police
How to legally and lawfully GET RID OF ALL @Flock_Safety
🚨 Flock has a hidden weakness many don’t know: public records requests.
Activists have successfully forced at least 8 cities to shut down Flock programs, either by exposing unauthorized data access or showing the footage was publicly accessible.
One of the most effective ways to take down Flock cameras?
FOIA Freedom of Info Requests
PRA Public Records Requests
Credit to @JasonBassler1 for a template to file one in your city:
It's my humble opinion that Amy Coney Barrett should recuse herself from the birthright citizenship case since she has adopted children from Haiti! Her vote will impact her children personally so she'll vote in favor of!
ACB wants her foreign Haitian children to be Americans!
Zohran Mamdani went off here 👏
🇺🇸Reporter: "So why are you against Israel?"
🇺🇸Zohran: "People in the U.S. are tired of spending tens of billions of their tax money to break international law and kill thousands of civilians by Israel 🇮🇱.
And we both know they keep calling it a ceasefire in Palestine. But over a thousand Palestinians have been killed while that 'CEASEFIRE' was on."🔥
Finally an American leader with Spine 🔥🫡
Fun fact: The phrase "reasonable expectation of privacy" is nowhere in the 4th Amendment. A judge invented it in 1967.
The actual text guarantees your right to be secure in your person, house, papers, and effects. One is an unalienable property right; the other is a legal loophole that shrinks every time technology grows.
BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly "apocalyptically angry" that the Supreme Court's rejection of his E. Jean Carroll guilty verdict appeal, means that he's officially, once and for all, a rapey, raping rapist.
SCOTUS just ruled 6-3 that "geofence warrants" violate the Fourth Amendment!
"Search first, ask questions later" fishing expeditions are the tools of tyrants & prison wardens.
Carrying a smartphone shouldn't mean volunteering for a digital dragnet.
Massive win for Liberty.
Charlie Kirk wasn’t killed by Tyler Robinson, a lone gunman wielding a 30-06 rifle. Furthermore, his death wasn’t a result of his views on transgenderism.
Charlie Kirk lost his life to an exploding Rode microphone.
His demise was brought upon him by the very people he trusted the most.
Kirk’s evolving perspectives on Israel, his unwavering commitment to accountability, and his staunch opposition to neoconservative ideologies may have directly contributed to his downfall.
Any questions?
Thomas Massie just introduced the "No Funds for Israel" bill to cut $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid to Israel.
Every member of Congress will have to vote yes or no. Keep sending billions of our tax dollars to fund a war that has killed tens of thousands of civilians, or vote to stop it.
The American people deserve to know where their representatives stand. Which will it be, Debbie? @DWStweets https://t.co/inWDuZWhYn
If Mitch McConnell and family want privacy, that's fine, but he should resign. Otherwise, he needs to reveal his condition and his ability to do his job.
🚨SCOTUS RULING🚨
SCOTUS ruled that when police get your detailed cell phone location history from Google (through a "geofence" warrant), it counts as a Fourth Amendment search.
This means you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in that data.
Byron Donalds wants you to believe he is “America First.”
Really?
Bankrolled by TikTok billionaire money, AI moguls, prison profiteers, monopoly utilities, Big Sugar, gambling interests, and a school voucher empire tied to his own household.
That is not America First.
That is Florida for sale, with Byron as the smiling cashier.
Governor?
Please.
He's nothing more than the bitch of many in the donor class.
U.S. taxes are INSANE! Americans are being robbed by their government.
• Income tax: up to 37%
• Payroll tax: 15.3%
• State income tax: up to 13%
• Sales tax: up to 10%
• Property tax: forever
And that’s before inflation quietly steals what’s left.
End the madness.
ABOLISH ALL TAXES.