Are Flock Cameras Violating the 4th Amendment? Local Board Data Glitch Exposed

 

Pull up a chair, get comfortable, and let’s talk for a minute about what went down at the local board meeting. I don't want to give you a boring, blow-by-blow corporate breakdown—you can watch the video for all that—but I want to tell you about the real meat of the issue I found when I started digging into the files.

You know me, I like to look at the hard evidence. I went ahead and filed a formal Sunshine request and ended up tracking down five years of the police department's annual reports on my computer. When you actually sit down and crunch the numbers side-by-side, the math tells a story that should make every single citizen open their eyes.

Right now, our town is logging about 7,700 vehicle stops a year. If you break that down around the clock, that means someone in our community is being pulled over every 90 minutes. Now, the city likes to point out that about 80% of those are just warnings. But a warning still means you're being delayed on your way home, all because an automated camera sent a digital "ping" to a police cruiser's dashboard screen.

But here is where the real glitch in the system shows up.

According to the official city records, the board only ever signed off on a maximum of six Flock surveillance cameras. That’s what was publicly debated, and that's what was approved. But when I looked at the active tracking data from my public records request, the city is actually operating 13 cameras right now.

That means we have four "outlier" cameras hidden around our streets running with absolutely zero official board approval or public oversight.

When a city starts deploying unapproved surveillance gear to track everyday drivers who aren't even speeding, it’s not on the up-and-up. It crosses the line from public safety straight into a 4th Amendment violation against unreasonable tracking—a point that national leaders like Senator Josh Hawley have been raising serious flags about lately.

We’ve got to educate ourselves on what’s happening on our own roads. The data doesn't lie, and it's time to ask who authorized those extra cameras to watch us without our knowledge.

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