The use of automatic license plate readers has exploded across the country in recent years. The cameras on roads and freeways that take images of the back of passing cars are popular with police for solving crimes.
But as Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown has escalated in recent months, residents of various American cities are urging local leaders to stop using these cameras, citing fears of mass surveillance and concerns that local data could be aiding a federal deportation dragnet.
Many of the grassroots campaigns have targeted cameras made by Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company that has contracts with more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies across the country. Some cities have grappled with the issue and decided to keep their cameras due to public safety, but in a number of places, the pressure has worked.
https://deflock.org/ get these cameras and drones out of your cities now!
I really wanna do a coordinated attack on these cameras where a large group all at once takes out the cameras in my city. Good luck tracking who destroyed the cameras when they all go down at once.
The idea of a flock camera being installed was brought up at a town hall meeting I went to several months ago, they decided against it and the reason given was:
“I doubt it would last any longer than any of the local stop signs” (Almost all of which have at least one bullet hole)