This is the address to the camera shown in the video:
701 Hopewell Church Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27127
How can a city council AND city police department not know there are Flock cameras in their city?
This pamphlet has a front and back side. Make sure your margins when printing this is uniform and shrink to fit is selected. fold the pamphlet in half with the front side showing, then fold it again so that the title page and change.org QR code is showing. The pamphlet includes a variety of information, I tried to add as much as possible but I wasn't able to add all the sources I found.
Here are the sources I included on the pamphlet:
How rogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking
Woman wrongfully arrested in deadly I-4 crash plans to sue Florida Highway Patrol
Woman files lawsuit for emotional distress, 'humiliation' against FHP after wrongful arrest
Innocent Woman Jailed Because of Flock Cameras
Flock Safety Camera Vulnerabilities: 50+ Flaws Found
Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel used it to track targets, AP sources say
‘Get it the ‘FLOCK’ out’: Students rise up against AI-powered license plate readers
Cops point guns and handcuff innocent family, blame it on flock cameras
I want anyone who has not signed this petition to sign it right now. If you actively look at this subreddit, there is no excuse for you to not sign. It takes a few seconds to do real activism on a petition, and I only ask that you practice the things you claim to believe. Do it for your family, for your friends, for everyone who is unsafe from the abuses of this technology.
Disney is normalizing ALPRs with superheros. The moment is brief but think about it, even Spider-Man is using cameras to track criminals, so how could it be bad? But it is bad. I will not be watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day in theaters over this.
These council members voting to keep one surveillance camera over another instead of standing up and voting no for surveillance all together, smdh.
What a great night for privacy and government accountability. This is what we covered:
Someone laid out the data security problem: Apex has already been breached once, the sign-up system in the room that night was leaking data, and this is the same town we're trusting to safeguard millions of plate scans. Someone else walked through how our Flock network shares data with over a thousand agencies across the country, and how federal access keeps happening through side channels even after we were told it wouldn't. Someone made the financial case: these vendors embed themselves into a department, make themselves feel indispensable, then raise the price year after year while the money that could go to parks and roads goes to them instead. Someone brought the algorithmic angle, how this data feeds predictive policing tools that recycle past bias into future decisions. And someone took apart "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" better than I've heard it done, that we all hold information back to protect the people we love, and that concentrating everyone's movements in one place is the danger, not the safeguard.
I especially want to thank Steve Burke, who came out and spoke. Steve runs Gamers Nexus, one of the biggest tech channels on Youtube, and he stood up as a neighbor and broke down the security failures in plain terms. Having someone with that depth in the room mattered. Thank you, Steve.
Here's where things stand. The cameras are not gone. The way we keep winning is the way we won last night. We show up. We speak for ourselves. We don't delegate it to someone else.
If you were there, thank you. If you weren't, the next meeting is your turn. deflockapex.org has everything.
And to Council, the movement is growing, organizing, and we're not stopping until you remove all of this technology.
Addition: Here is the summary of last night: https://deflockapex.org/council-2026-08-11
Sheriff Ross Teeple announced to Pinal County council members that he would not continue the contracts with ALPR companies. This man, despite being a Sheriff, is not only removing the common argument of "We need this to do our job." from his language, not only advocating against it based on vulnerabilities and 4th amendment concerns, but actively looking into the ALPR venders the county has and canceling contracts based on ethics. Pinal County is lucky to have this Sheriff, and every Sheriff should follow in Sheriff Teeple's footsteps.
Disclaimer: Posting this anonymously because I’m a current officer at a large agency, and I’d rather not have this attached to my name. These are my personal opinions.
If you’re worried about government overreach, why is nobody talking about Axon’s mobile ALPRs?
My agency uses Axon. Every patrol car has an Axon dash cam with ALPR capabilities. That means every time we’re driving around on calls or just patrolling, license plates are being read all over the city. Apartment complexes, neighborhoods, shopping centers, parking lots, side streets etc.
All that data populates into a searchable database with the ability to plot map points based on the patrol
Vehicles gps data. It also takes an extremely high definition photo of every single vehicle that it scans, during the day it’s not uncommon to be able to identify drivers and passengers in a vehicle from these photos. It is important to note that none of this data currently requires any legal process to search and there is very little oversight.
A Flock camera only sees the cars that drive past that one intersection.
An Axon-equipped patrol car is a moving license plate reader. Everywhere that car goes, it’s collecting plate reads.
And here’s what bothers me: if you drive around the same city every day like most people do, those reads start adding up. Go to the same gym every morning? Same grocery store every Sunday? Same girlfriend’s apartment every weekend? Same office Monday through Friday? Over time, that history can reveal a pretty detailed pattern of your life. You weren’t being investigated. You just happened to exist in public while the government collected data on where your car was seen.
That’s the part I have a problem with.
Before anyone jumps in, yes, ALPRs help recover stolen cars and catch violent offenders. I’ve seen them work. I’m not arguing they have zero value.
I’m saying the public has almost no idea how much data is being collected on people who have done absolutely nothing wrong.
Personally, I think we’ve crossed a line. Government surveillance shouldn’t become acceptable just because the technology exists. We shouldn’t normalize creating searchable databases of innocent people’s movements because it’s convenient.
If you’re showing up to city council meetings to fight Flock cameras, I’d encourage you to ask your local department some questions too.
Do your patrol cars use Axon mobile ALPRs?
How long are those plate reads kept?
Can historical reads be searched by plate?
Who has access to that data?
What oversight is there to prevent abuse?
I don’t care whether the camera is bolted to a light pole or sitting on the windshield of a patrol car. If the end result is the government quietly building a historical record of where ordinary people travel, it’s still government overreach.
And in my opinion, the mobile systems deserve a lot more scrutiny than they’re getting.
Another massive issue is Fusus, the real time crime app owner by axon. I have the fusus app on my phone, and I can load any camera in the city (to include city owned cameras and cameras businesses has given the real time crime center access to) and a fleet of drones that live stream to the app when dispatched. Dystopian.
For what it’s worth, my city also has flock cameras, and almost no one uses them. The axon system is substantially more powerful.
One other side note I don’t think people realize, flock cameras are frequently privately owned, for example lowes has cameras on all of their entrances in almost every location in my area.
Feel free to ask me anything, I think this deserves far more attention than it’s getting.
Axon, in partnership with Ubicquia, offers Lightpost, a fixed camera system that mounts on existing streetlight poles using a UbiHub power and connectivity interface. The device performs automated license plate recognition, vehicle attribute recognition (make, model, color), and real-time video livestreaming into the Axon Fusus platform used by public safety agencies. Official product materials state installation on existing infrastructure occurs in under an hour without new poles or trenching, drawing power via standard NEMA 7-pin photocell connections. Data and video feed into Axon’s public-safety ecosystem for operational awareness. The system is marketed as an expansion of fixed vehicle-intelligence coverage for law-enforcement customers.
Sources
https://www.axon.com/products/axon-lightpost
https://www.axon.com/resources/vehicle-intelligence-from-axon-is-here
https://www.axon.com/help/lightpost/cameras-and-sensors/lightpost/get-to-know.htm
Axon Fusus is a cloud-based real-time crime center platform that aggregates live video feeds from public cameras, private business systems, and community devices into a single map interface. Acquired by Axon in early 2024, it uses CORE hardware appliances and software integrations to pull streams from virtually any source, including registered home and commercial cameras. The dual-use vector is continuous situational awareness that converts passive recording into active, remote monitoring of public spaces without new public infrastructure.
Fusus interfaces through voluntary camera registries and one-button requests that grant police access to hours of private footage or live feeds. Marketed as faster emergency response and community collaboration, the architecture enables behavioral observation across jurisdictions. Structural weak points include limited consent controls once cameras are registered and the absence of warrant requirements for accessing consented streams, exposing everyday movement data.
Infrastructure creep expands the surveillance grid by folding millions of private cameras into permanent police networks under public-safety partnerships. Demonstrated in deployments nationwide and Ring livestream capabilities; the trajectory is deeper fusion with body cams, ALPRs and AI detection.
Taken to scale it creates frictionless multi-source tracking that ordinary people cannot opt out of once their cameras or neighbors’ systems join. Threat pillars are irreversible data aggregation, vendor lock-in via Axon ecosystem, and lowered barriers to preemptive stops. Demand independent audits of local Fusus contracts and support community oversight ordinances.
Sources
Axon Accelerates Real-Time Operations Solution with Strategic Acquisition of Fusus
Official announcement of Axon’s 2024 acquisition of Fusus and description of its live-video aggregation capabilities.
The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
https://www.wired.com/story/real-time-crime-centers-rtcc-us-police/
Details Fusus as the leading RTCC platform, private-camera integration, Ring livestream capability, and expansion of 123+ centers.
Axon Fusus product page
https://www.axon.com/products/axon-fusus
Primary vendor description of unified live feeds, community camera sharing, and single-pane RTCC operations.
ACLU Settles Lawsuit for Mr. Michael Celestine
Documents the 2020 New Orleans RTCC camera surveillance that led to the stop, tasing, year-long detention, and later settlement.
Lawsuit shows growth in surveillance-based police stops
Confirms the Celestin case facts, 15-minute camera tracking, and use of the city’s Real Time Crime Center network.
Axon Lightpost is a fixed camera system that mounts on existing municipal streetlights through Ubicquia’s UbiHub platform. It performs automated license-plate recognition, vehicle attribute recognition, and livestreaming, feeding data into Axon’s Fusus evidence and real-time awareness tools. Power comes from the streetlight’s photocell interface; connectivity is cellular.
The architecture lowers the cost and visual profile of ALPR compared with standalone poles. Continuous plate and video capture occurs at the edge, with encrypted transmission to the agency’s Axon environment. Retention, access controls, and any cross-agency sharing are set by the contracting department rather than by a uniform national rule. No public record establishes that every streetlight in the United States will receive a unit.
Streetlight-based LPR platforms have already been used by multiple vendors, including prior Ubicquia–Flock pairings. Axon introduced Lightpost after ending its earlier data partnership with Flock; several cities that canceled Flock contracts have since contracted with Axon for comparable coverage. Expansion therefore follows ordinary municipal procurement rather than a single mandated network.
Net exposure is the cumulative density of vehicle tracking that becomes feasible once installation barriers drop. Oversight remains with city councils, state ALPR statutes, open-records requests for contracts and retention policies, and any local ordinances that require public notice or density limits before streetlight attachments are approved.
Sources
Axon Lightpost product page
https://www.axon.com/products/axon-lightpost
Axon Lightpost technical product guide
https://www.axon.com/help/lightpost/cameras-and-sensors/lightpost/get-to-know.htm
Ubicquia announcement of Axon collaboration
Gadget Review report on cities shifting from Flock to Axon ALPR
Daily Caller coverage of Axon Lightpost and Ubicquia partnership
Project ION is Axon’s robotic framework for electroshock payloads. Originating with Axon Enterprises, it integrates unmanned vehicles with remote firing. The dual-use vector: this hardware inverts into persistent passive surveillance. Fact: Axon acquired Sky-Hero for tactical robotics.
It interfaces via spatial tracking. Justified for active shooters, Axon's ethics board contested this. The engine enables remote dehumanization. Structural weak points: remote operation diminishes moral culpability, exposing community autonomy to unchecked automated force.
This brings weaponized observation. The right in tension is bodily autonomy. Historically, military reconnaissance transitions to domestic police. Left unexamined, this spreads through infrastructure creep, bypassing independent oversight via Flock Safety partnerships.
At scale, it establishes frictionless tracking and asymmetric power. Threat pillars: remote force, biometric surveillance, and private data streams. Verify via The Markup. Push back: support the NYU Policing Project and demand municipal drone bans.
Sources
Axon drops Taser drone idea after 9 on ethics board resign
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/axon-taser-drone-canceled-ethics-board-resigns/
This article covers the resignation of the ethics board over the weaponized drone program.
Axon's Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones, Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker
This report details how automated targeting limits human culpability and expands surveillance.
Axon Acquires Sky-Hero
https://www.policemag.com/technology/news/15632289/axon-acquires-skyhero
This publication details the corporate acquisition of the tactical robot manufacturer.
Axon Partners with Flock Safety to Enhance Security for Cities
This release outlines data consolidation strategies and public-safety partnerships.
Sky-Hero: The Future of Tactical Reconnaissance
This source outlines the manufacturer's indoor scouting and unmanned vehicle capabilities.
I did some backtracking of flock cameras in LA via the Epstein files and some news articles and this chart is kind of chaotic but was hoping for feedback. It’s obviously not complete and requires people not be lazy and actually look at each referenced file and article but happy to answer questions
Just a hunch
Axon Body Workforce is a body-worn camera system designed for retail and frontline employees that records customer interactions, supports livestreaming through Axon Respond, and includes a configurable pre-event buffer of up to 120 seconds plus Video Recall extending to 18 hours. Axon Enterprise acquired Israeli-founded Carbyne for $625 million in a deal announced November 4, 2025 and closed in February 2026, integrating Carbyne’s cloud-native emergency communications platform into the Axon ecosystem. The dual-use architecture allows continuous visual and audio capture that can be remotely uploaded and viewed in real time.
The system stores footage in Axon Evidence and supports Attribute Search, which uses natural-language queries to locate individuals by clothing or carried items across body-camera video. Structural features include live maps of camera wearers and automatic evidence management that create persistent records of shopper interactions without requiring continuous manual activation. These pathways operate inside private retail environments and feed the same evidence platform used by public-safety agencies.
Deployment follows the established pattern of police body-camera technology migrating into commercial settings. Walmart has tested the cameras on front-line staff in Texas, while other major retailers including TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods have adopted or evaluated similar Axon systems. The result is infrastructure that normalizes continuous recording of ordinary commercial activity under the justification of worker safety and loss prevention.
At scale the combination of livestream capability, pre-event buffering, biometric-capable video, and searchable attributes establishes persistent observational capacity inside everyday retail spaces with limited practical notice or opt-out for customers. Independent verification of retention policies, access logs, and third-party data sharing remains necessary before further expansion.
Sources
https://www.axon.com/newsroom/press-releases/axon-to-acquire-carbyne
https://www.axon.com/products/axon-body-workforce
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-tests-body-cameras-workers-employees-texas-2024-12
Greensboro’s new “violence prevention” initiative wants residents and business owners to register their cameras with a private corporation for police access.
The billion-dollar company Axon Enterprise has a $1.5 million contract with the city to integrate public and private cameras into the surveillance system known as the Real Time Intelligence Center. Camera registration involves a hardware insertion of an Axon device, which for businesses entails granting live, administrative access to the footage. Axon uses artificial intelligence to automatically recognize weapons, vehicles, “etc.”
The newly created Greensboro Collaborative Action Network is promoting the program to residents and businesses owners. Its last meeting was attended predominantly by city staff, council, police officers, and business owners. Its next meeting is July 9.
The broader promotion of the Axon camera program fits the pattern of Mayor Marikay Abuzuaiter’s prioritization of expansive policing. Her record of advocacy for the police department is well documented. Less known is the 2023 arrangement between her husband, Isa Abuzuaiter, and the Greensboro Police Department for access to the camera footage at his convenience store on East Market Street.
Source: Battleground