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?

Finally got this live after a lot of nights and weekends!

You give it an address and a radius, and it messages you when a new automated license plate reader gets mapped near you. It tells you how far away it is, what road it’s on, and gives you a link that opens the spot in your maps app.

Data is from OpenStreetMap, so it’s whatever people have actually mapped. Covers the whole US including territories. Not tied to one brand, it picks up Flock, Motorola, Genetec, Axon and the rest, plus gunshot detectors.

Alerts can be instant or batched into a daily or weekly digest. Web push, email, Telegram, Discord or ntfy.

It’s free with no paid tier and no ads. I run it on my own hardware, which is the whole reason I can keep it that way instead of passing a hosting bill on to anyone.

Contact info and addresses are encrypted, nothing is kept longer than it needs to be, and you can export or delete everything you gave it whenever you want.

flock-watch.us

Happy to answer anything about how it works! And if coverage looks thin where you are, that’s almost always a gap in OSM rather than the site, so let me know and I’ll take a look :)

-- An important message to New Zealand schoolkids from Louis Rossmann

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.

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.

According to Billionaire Newsroom, Axon CEO Rick Smith is actively researching and developing "non-lethal operational effects" for their new drone lineup. One such technology includes tasers attached to drones. It will be powered by AI to act instantly and indiscriminately.

Axon Advances AI and Drone Technology as CEO Outlines Vision for Non-Lethal Intervention Systems

Video Version Of The Same Article

This is an invasion of our rights. AI is a new race separate from human beings and giving them this sole power raises ethical alarms. While AI may one day become conscious and on that day be granted rights, we should not allow our own liberties to be taken into the hands of AI alone, especially in split second responses.

A person reading these things may be reminded of RoboCop, where AI malfunctions lead to several innocent fatalities. Some of those fatalities were executives demonstrating the products. This is too far, America is turning into a military state at the hands of big corporate interest groups, much like OCP in RoboCop.

RoboCop (1987) ED 209 Malfunctions Out of control (1080p) Full HD

RoboCop 2 - OCP's Failed Robots - 1080p

This can not, should not, under no conditions be allowed to happen. No crime warrants the unrightful implementation of these technologies on innocent civilians or even guilty civilians. We do not live in Nazi Germany, we do not live in communist China, we do not live in Soviet Russia, we do not live in North Korea, we live in the United States of America where our rights are constitutionally protected.

This is our country, and we elect the leaders, the leaders do not elect us. It is our tax dollars and not the politician's or the corporation's. It is our streets, not the police's. It is our life, our liberty, our pursuit of happiness. Now, more than ever, is a time to stand up against tyrants.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin

There are two dates this year that I think are very important for ALPR protests to start on. The first is national immigrants day on October 28th, and the second is Bill of Rights day on December 15th.

It is important we protest on these days as it will show whether we the people can organize, share, and come against companies like Flock and Axon. If you protest on no other days, at least protest on the Bill of Rights day.

I understand that you all have lives, work, and school. Im asking you to protect your future. What is a life you can not live? It is a duty for each of us to protect that which we hold dear. Protect you and your family by protesting surveillance.

Credit first — and we mean it. Under public pressure, a week before the County Commission meets, Sheriff McMahon announced real changes: data retention cut from 90 days to 30, a monthly audit (up from annual), and a public transparency portal. Those are wins, and they happened because people spoke up. Genuine thanks to the Sheriff. Then we held it to his own standard: "Technology should never operate without accountability." His own portal, by the numbers:

36 total cameras — but only 19 are license plate readers. That leaves 17 unexplained — the live-video Condor cameras he still calls "just a plate reader." (We've located and mapped 5 of the 8 Condors, plus an integrated Axis camera.)

774,174 vehicles logged in 30 days; 815 searches — but that's only the Sheriff's Office's own searches.

Camera locations are still secret.

The three questions his portal doesn't answer: what the cameras are, where they are, and who is searching them.

That last one is the big one. The monthly audit only covers the Sheriff's ~800 searches — it can't touch the outside agencies that drive most of the traffic. From five other NC agencies' unredacted records, about 90% of searches come from outside North Carolina, with Houston TX PD the single biggest searcher. New Hanover still redacts who's searched us — that record is now in pre-litigation mediation.

The audit paradox: the office has already asked the public to discount its own audit labels — calling barred "traffic infraction" searches "mislabeled." You can't hold the audit up as the safeguard and wave off its contents in the same month.

And you can't even archive it: the portal is walled behind Cloudflare — both the Wayback Machine and archive.today get a 403. A transparency page the public can't keep a copy of.

He read a statement and took no questions. The public still hasn't had a say. That's what Aug 17 is for. New Hanover County Commission — Monday, Aug 17, 4:00 PM, Historic Courthouse, Room 301, Wilmington. Public comment is at the end; sign up in person by 3:30.

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