by Leo Hohmann, Leo’s Newsletter:
De-Flocking America isn’t enough. It is well past time to rein in the psychopaths who run our governments, starting at the local level.
I woke up to a bizarre headline in my local newspaper one day earlier this week here in Newnan, a small city of roughly 46,000 population in Coweta County, Georgia.
As most of you know, I’ve been reporting for quite a while on the AI spy cameras blanketing America and their role in the rapidly developing surveillance state. Atlanta-based Flock Safety has more than 118,000 of these surveillance cameras in more than 6,000 American cities and towns. Axon and Motorola are also major players in the police surveillance business, so it’s not just Flock, even though Flock gets most of the attention.
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So you can imagine my eyes popping out of my head when I looked at the August 4 edition of The Newnan Times Herald and saw the headline: “Three Coweta sheriff’s employees resign after audit flags Flock Safety access.”
The article contained scant information other than to tell us that three employees of our local Sheriff’s Office had been forced to resign after they were caught misusing video data they accessed from the county’s Flock surveillance cameras in violation of department policy.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the three employees met with their department heads to discuss their use of the AI-powered Flock tracking system after an internal audit flagged their activity. During those meetings, each of the three employees “resigned before the audit process was completed and before an internal investigation was opened,” the article stated.
The sheriff’s office did not identify the employees, describe the nature of their positions, or specify what activity triggered the review. Whatever they did, it must have been very embarrassing to the Sheriff for him to so quickly dismiss them with no further information provided.
At the end of the article, it was casually reported that our local Sheriff would provide us with no more information on the unethical activity of his three employees, and that the entire case had been turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI). Any further information will have to come from the GBI, which pretty much guarantees that we will never get any substantial information on what type of mischief occurred in Newnan, Georgia, because we’ve now essentially got Georgia cops investigating themselves.
If this case is anything similar to others across America involving the misuse of Flock cameras, we likely have a situation where law enforcement was spying on people in the community or tracking their movement, perhaps an ex-spouse, a girlfriend or hoped-for romantic interest, or some other personal use of the Flock surveillance technology that had nothing to do with actual law enforcement.
Here’s what should infuriate every citizen of Coweta County and every other community where these cameras are popping up along every major highway, secondary roads, bike paths, parks, shopping center parking lots and walking trails: If the police use this technology to track all of us, that’s allegedly good and proper. But if one of their employees uses it to track a particular individual, that’s considered bad.
Why not get rid of the cameras altogether? Americans don’t like being spied on by their government. It’s a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and needs to stop. Until it does, we have no privacy and live as slaves. The prying eyes of government are watching our every move, then using the information in secret ways only they are privy to.
