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Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by FireBeyond »

Firerouge wrote: post #56
burningChrome wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> This is a quite scary map. It can be. FLOCK data was used to put Bryan Kohberger at the scene along with other people's security camera's. Cops regularly use FLOCK camera's to get hits for criminals that have warrants for violent crime. I can see why people are ok with them when they're used to get criminals off the streets. However, I've seen multiple times where cops initiate a felony stop (where people are pull…

Do you have a source to your Bryan claim? If you look at the map, there are zero flock cameras reported in that region. None in Moscow Idaho where the murder happened, none in Pullman where he lived, and none showed between the locations.

You can't rely on Flock's "transparency" reports either, they're woefully inadequate. In our County, the Sheriff spoke of a PD in the County getting a Flock hit. It was news to many, including Flock's transparency site, that that PD was a user of their services.

So I'm not overly surprised by this.

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by randlet »

drunken_thor wrote: post #23

Haha Sudbury and Napanee are the only places in Canada to have them. They are tiny cities where nothing happens. Bored police officers imagining situations where they are needed.

Sudbury is 150k+ people so not exactly tiny in terms of Canadian cities (30th most populus).

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by ssl-3 »

baggy_trough wrote: post #108
ssl-3 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what you're saying is that I can report your[1] car as being associated with a crime, and the police will show up wherever you and/or your car is and treat you like a criminal? I love this for you! [1] the literal you, as well as the figurative

No, the comment is not saying that. You appear to have invented it.

If you think there's something wrong with my interpretation, then please explain what that is to me. I'm not seeing a problem with it.

(I may, in fact, be an idiot. Help me out here.)

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by k33n »

snailmailman wrote: post #5

This is a quite scary map. They are all over my local area. It may technically be possible to route a drive around them, but if you take the most convenient path between any two points at least one camera will spot you. I'd have to leave my neighborhood through back roads and enter local shopping areas through sidestreets. This data shouldn't even be collected in the first place, let alone consolidated into a nationa…

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Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by qup »

willis936 wrote: post #28

Woof. There is one that I basically must drive by everyday close to where I live. How can I figure out who is responsible for its installation so I can let them know how I feel (and will vote) about it?

It's probably your city/police.

I have two cameras in my small town, but I can avoid them, so I now go out of my way to cross town.

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by fc417fc802 »

nocoolnametom wrote: post #127

One way to possibly get the cameras taken down: insist on requesting the data as it's public data and should be publicly accessible. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/wa-cit...

It only gets them deactivated until the state legislature "fixes" the "loophole".

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by ribosometronome »

nocoolnametom wrote: post #127

One way to possibly get the cameras taken down: insist on requesting the data as it's public data and should be publicly accessible. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/wa-cit...

If they're not already exempted by law, legislators are likely to carve out exemptions. Federally, the FOIA already exempts the government from releasing data that would violate privacy (which was one of the hurdles to releasing Epstein related documents prior to Congress passing a law to demand it).

Re: An interactive map of Flock Cams

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Post by natebc »

k33n wrote: post #133
culi wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because they already are

Can you name just one incident of abuse?

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article29105...

A Sedgwick, Kansas, police chief used Flock Safety license plate readers to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend’s vehicles 228 times over four-plus months and used his police vehicle to follow them out of town, according to a city official and a report released this week by the agency that oversees police certifications.

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