Tennesseans shouldn’t have to sacrifice their privacy in the name of public safety. We can give law enforcement the tools they need to keep our communities safe without giving up the rights that make us Americans.
Kevin: "Stop buying coffee for five dollars and fifty cents You go to work and you spend $15 bucks on a sandwich, what are you an idiot. It costs you 99 cents to make a sandwich at home and bring it with you. Bring your own water, your own drink…”
Futurism: Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
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"Atlanta, Georgia has experienced far and away the largest influx of ALRPs in the country, with over 5,000 various Flock cameras now blanketing the city.
Yet as bombshell data released by the FBI shows, the city’s massive web of surveillance has had virtually zero impact on the Atlanta Police Department’s ability to solve crime.."
https://t.co/nxSWmCRdcz
Please see this video and press release regarding Flock cameras in Knox County.
Video transcript:
Hello, this is Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs. Today, I am urging our Commission to prohibit the use of Flock cameras and similar devices in our County.
For those of you who don't know, these cameras, technically called Automated License Plate Readers, are motion activated and take a picture of every car which passes by. While License Plate Readers have been around for a while, because of AI and vastly increased networking and data retention capacities, these Flock cameras have capabilities not even imagined in the past.
Older cameras only took a photo of your license plate, which was then retained for a short time. Flock cameras take a photo of your place, but also use AI to catalogue distinguishing features of your vehicle: make, color, model, even bumper stickers. That data is stored in a searchable database for sometimes up to a month or more, depending on the policies of that particular agency. When these cameras are deployed in large numbers, they create a network that can be used to track your movements.
Currently, there is no federal regulatory framework governing these devices in place, and the Tennessee laws regulating them were written over a decade ago. My fear is that may be inadvertantly creating a warrantless mass surveillance system and undermining the privacy and Liberty of our people.
So I urge the Tennessee General Assembly and the United States Congress to look at this issue and take neccessary action to safeguard our privacy and civil liberties as these new technologies continue to emerge.
Thank you.
"People who have no idea that Africans enslaved Europeans, just as Europeans enslaved Africans, should read ‘Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters’ by Professor Robert C. Davis of Ohio State University."
— Thomas Sowell
The 5-Step Flock Cancellation Starter Pack™
✔️ FOIA Template
Force your city to produce contracts, invoices, hit rates, false positives. I already drafted the template.
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✔️ 8 Ways to Legally Take Down Flock
Legal pressure points. Bureaucratic chokeholds. Policy judo. Use their own paperwork against them.
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✔️ Expose Illegal & Unsafe Flock Installations
Most Flock cameras are installed wrong. Cities routinely violate federal and local safety standards when they install these things. Also zoning violations, ADA obstructions, even poles on private property.
https://t.co/zyloHYX6pX
✔️ Rate/Review Businesses Using Flock
If they want to spy on the public, the public gets to review the experience. Incentives work. Speak up.
https://t.co/isUkEuyP2P
✔️ 5 Flock Watchdog Sites
Crowdsourced intel on deployments, failures, misreads, abuses, and the cities already backing out.
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Surveillance only works when you stay quiet.
Flock dies when we start asking real questions.
I have serious concerns about the rollout of Flock cameras in Knox County. I believe they are a threat to our privacy and civil liberties. Commission is holding a special session prior to their regular meeting Monday to discuss this issue, and I will have more to say as well.
This is one of the craziest Flock camera stories you’ve heard so far.
They caught an officer using Flock camera to track and stalk his ex and the new love interest of the X.
Then they find out the Internal Affair Detective who was investigating the entire thing, he had also misused Flock cameras over 20 times to track people as well.
There is no way we can let this continue. Ban the Flock cameras now.
Congress shouldn’t give the president another dime for his insane, unauthorized war that he said would last just four weeks and that we’ve supposedly won 40 times.