A 13-year veteran of the Albany County Sheriff's Office faces two misdemeanor charges after investigators say she ran her ex-girlfriend's license plate through a surveillance camera system nearly 3,000 times over more than a year, all without a single legitimate case behind it. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple announced the arrest of senior investigator Laurie […] The post Albany sheriff's investigator charged with using Flock camera to stalk ex-girlfriend nearly 3,000 times appeared first on American Almanac .
A 13-year veteran of the Albany County Sheriff's Office faces two misdemeanor charges after investigators say she ran her ex-girlfriend's license plate through a surveillance camera system nearly 3,000 times over more than a year, all without a single legitimate case behind it. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple announced the arrest of senior investigator Laurie Moore, 47, at a Wednesday press conference, flanked by District Attorney Lee Kindlon. Moore is charged with second-degree falsifying business records and official misconduct. She has been suspended indefinitely, and a court date is set for September 24. ABC News reported that attorney information for Moore was not immediately available. The sheriff's office says Moore didn't…Open
The Tennessee town of Collegedale is addressing privacy concerns about automated license plate readers by taking the cameras down altogether. Collegedale Police Chief Jack Sapp said in a statement on Wednesday that he revoked access to the city's Flock cameras for
JOE LONSDALE calls Flock cameras “one little tiny narrow piece of a massive thing.” JOE ALLEN: Flock has become a symbol for the wider surveillance network. In the same way that @PalantirTech has become a symbol for the foreign interventions. These systems, while right now are being built as they’re going to get rid of the immigrants, are more and more going to be used against us. Whoever is in charge of these systems will use them. And as we’ve seen time and time again with January 6th, for instance, these systems will be used against us and used against us disproportionately at any turn.
JOE LONSDALE calls Flock cameras “one little tiny narrow piece of a massive thing.” JOE ALLEN: Flock has become a symbol for the wider surveillance network. In the same way that @PalantirTech has become a symbol for the foreign interventions. These systems, while right now are being built as they’re going to get rid of the immigrants, are more and more going to be used against us. Whoever is in charge of these systems will use them. And as we’ve seen time and time again with January 6th, for instance, these systems will be used against us and used against us disproportionately at any turn.
The license plate readers have been at the center of a national debate centered around public safety and privacy, forcing some communities in the law-and-order state to reconsider their relationship with Flock. MS NOW's Marc Santia visits several Texas cities to explore how this issue has united some residents across the political spectrum.
With Americans across the country rebelling against thousands of AI enhanced surveillance cameras infiltrating their cities, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed a bill prohibiting the funding of those cameras with taxpayer money. U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie, R
Backlash to Flock cameras has been growing in recent months, but the surveillance equipment company isn't the only one that may be operating in your neighborhood.
