u/philipnelson99

Can't believe the county I grew up in is leading the charge on this in South Carolina.

Greenville next!

I know there's a lot of popular sentiment around getting rid of flock cameras but they're definitely not the only AI driven surveillance tech departments use. In 2023, Kashmir Hill wrote a book called Your Face Belongs to Us about AI powered facial detection company Clearview AI and how their software was getting rapid adoption by law enforcement agencies across the US.

I'm hoping that this sentiment doesn't cease after flock gets reigned in.

Not sure how many people will find this useful, but I built a South Carolina Supreme Court opinion and order bot several years ago on twitter/x.

It's been operational there for quite some time and I also mirrored it over on bluesky.

In 2024, I started tracking the individual dockets for cases at both the SC Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. A bot on both x/twitter and bluesky posts a list of the filings in Supreme Court cases each day.

The actual tracking is done in near real time and the data is pulled directly from C-Track which is the court's docket system. I made this because I wanted to be able to get a summary of filings in appellate cases on any given day (this is not possible using just the Court's website).

A few weeks ago, I made a website that makes all the data behind the bot browsable and also let's users see filings on any day. You can also query the data directly if you desire.

My goal in this is to make the the appellate system a little more accessible and transparent. I'm a court watcher and so I've found this useful, I've also heard from attorneys and journalists that this is a useful endeavor.