r/Apex_NC

This is why we need to get Flock out. This is why we need a full ban on ALPR. This is why we need policy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/flock-cameras-lead-colorado-police-wrong-suspect/

I know I posted yesterday but after doing more googling I need more answers!!

Is it family friendly? Lots of kids? Good area? Is it normal to walk around the neighborhood? What if we have a golf cart? Amenities? We are renting here before we buy.

Thank you in advance.

Moving to Apex at the end of summer. I’m out of state. Does anyone have amazing primary care doctor or dentists that they love? Thanks!

Just got my July bill and it is much higher then previous months. We are now almost double what we were pre cyber attack. Does anyone know what the actual KW/H is?

Recent report from Institute of Justice shows problems with Flock and other ALPR cameras. Both human and machine error are detailed and the effects on innocent citizens.

Called 911 after being held against my will by someone for 5-6 minutes. Once I managed to escape, I was chased for another 5 minutes until I lost him. I provided video evidence to two officers who arrived, and they took 5 minutes in their car before coming out and saying “there’s no way you didn’t instigate this, we aren’t going to do anything about it”.

Let it be known, if you call APD for SA, you will be told “there’s no way you didn’t flash him eyes that made him think you wanted it”. If you call APD for DV, you will be told “there’s no way you weren’t being lippy and didn’t deserve it”. Apparently being chased by an out of control lunatic is a offensive and antagonistic behavior

Moving to the Apex area, how is it living in the Smiths Farm community?

Saw this masterpiece featured on the Youth in Apex take Mayor's e-bike, e-scooter safety pledge story at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7QZMdUgA3k&t=67s

https://preview.redd.it/xzf347kkiwah1.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e12b9c62a43340e817f9ba8f48ca8993e7dd3d5a

I spent a few weeks in China in the 2000s and 2010s. I remember the cameras, the feeling of always being a little watched. My friends and I joked about it, because it wasn't ours. We got to fly home, to the place where you could get in your car and go and nobody kept a record of it.

That record is being kept here now. License plate cameras in Apex log where every one of us drives, and share it far beyond this town. Not people accused of anything. All of us. The school run, the doctor's office, the long way home. And none of us ever said yes. No vote, no law we approved. Just choices someone made for us, that can change any time.

I know the response. Your phone tracks you more. Maybe. But you chose your phone, and you can leave it on the counter. You can't choose not to drive to work. And your phone company can't do anything to you but lose your business. This record sits with the government and moves to agencies with real power over your life. That's not a company you can walk away from.

Every reassurance we're given is just a setting. A toggle someone can switch, or forget to switch. Other towns learned that the hard way, systems they thought were locked down got reached anyway. You don't build a free life on a promise.

The law is catching up. Last week the Supreme Court said police can't treat this kind of location data as a free-for-all, that you keep a right to your own movements even when someone else holds the record. And more than fifty towns have shut these cameras off in the past year. I don't want Apex to be the last one holding this after everyone else walked away.

We talk a lot about loving freedom. Freedom isn't only for people who did something wrong. It's the ordinary thing of moving through your own town without a record following you home. A decision this personal belongs to us.

Not expecting much here, but does anyone know of some good spots to watch the fireworks that don’t involve setting up chair hours in advance? I don’t mind driving up and waiting a while.

Quick explainer on a growth-and-traffic vote from June 23.

Horton Park was originally approved with home-building limits tied to road improvements, including NCDOT's Ten Ten Road widening. Some of those improvements are done, and there's a new signal at Smith and Stephenson. But the state has pushed the Ten Ten widening out with no firm schedule, which is the kind of thing that leaves residents stuck with the traffic while waiting on the state.

The amendment we approved lets some additional homes move forward based on an updated traffic study, keeps the existing phasing requirements, and adds a new condition: the developer has to install a traffic signal at Jessie Drive and Ten Ten Road before platting more than 250 lots.

My take: when the state delays its own work, getting a developer to fund a needed signal is a concrete win for the people who actually drive that road. Approved 4-1, with Council Member Zegerman dissenting.

Curious what folks who drive Ten Ten think.

Yesterday afternoon, a massive group of kids (I think they were little dudes) were riding their bikes down Salem - even some over the line into oncoming traffic.

I think it's great that kids are doing something active, being social in summer, and they were all getting along.

But they gotta stay in their lane.....for safety.

Constant surveillance of people living their lives is literal Big Brother 1984.

Get it the flock out of Apex.