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Posted on 08/21/2026 3:36:40 AM PDT by dennisw
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A Texas constable just unplugged every Flock surveillance camera in his county and told the company to come get its garbage out of a free society.
Hood County Precinct 2 Constable John Shirley refused to wait for another empty study or corporate promise.
He and his team went out, disconnected the entire network of license-plate readers, covered them, and shut the system down cold.
“Today is a good day for the Freedom of the people of Hood County,” he posted.
He explained that he had finished the job of shutting down the county’s Flock cameras, which had been completely unplugged and covered.
Those devices were constantly scanning and recording regular people just going about their day, and that kind of permanent, warrantless tracking does not belong in a free society.
Every drive past one of those devices meant a person’s license plate was captured, time-stamped, and stored in a searchable database without any warrant or suspicion.
This created constant logging of ordinary Americans as they went to work, church, or the store.
Shirley made the principle plain when he stated that by unplugging and covering them they were making it clear that privacy is not optional and mass surveillance is not how things are done in Hood County.
He described the action as what limited government looks like and stressed that people there should not have to wonder if every trip they take is being logged and stored.
He expressed pride that this real win for the citizens had been accomplished.
He then delivered the final blow by telling Flock Safety Systems to come get their garbage out of his county.
This decisive stand comes at the exact moment reports have already exposed dozens of cases where officers abused the same network to stalk private citizens.
The company’s CEO admitted they could have done more earlier, yet the cameras keep spreading and turning daily life into permanent digital records that can be searched at will.
Once this infrastructure blankets the country, the temptation to misuse it never disappears.
Constable Shirley has proved that one determined official can still push back and win.
Hood County has drawn the line, leaving the question of whether the rest of America will follow before the watching becomes so normal that freedom itself feels like a memory.
Demand the same action in your county and share this widely, because the surveillance net is already tightening while one Texas lawman has just shown how to start cutting it.
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Free people everywhere, take note. And take action.
We need more like him.
Another guy with the last name “Shirley” looking out for us citizens.
Judging by the picture on the right, it looks like “Hood County” is serious about their name.
Actually, what I’d prefer is for him to distribute them to privacy organizations to dissect them and finally tell us exactly what capabilities and weaknesses they have.
All of them needs to go.
It needs to go away now.
Hmmm. Retiring in Hood County is an option indeed.
Just wait until the next “pandemic”.
I’ll take the opportunity to point out that most of you probably carry a worse surveillance / tracking device everywhere you go . . .
GREAT; TRUE
With all of the tracking devices, there should be more captured murderers, rapists, pedophiles, property destroyers.
Love this man!!!
I foresee this being the first of many.
Also, many new cars have their own telephone number.
“I foresee this being the first of many.”
Texas is a fertile ground to start. Colorado too, 20 years ago, pre drugs legalization, when it was one of the most libertarian states.
Agreed. In theory, there is no expectation of privacy on a public roadway (though case law varies from state to state with regard to the interior of a vehicle.) In practice, these systems and programs are admministered by people, each one more corruptible than than the next. Ironically, it is law enforcement officers like Sheriff Shirley I would trust most with these systems.
If legislatures put a mandatory 25 year prison sentence on any person misusing these systems and a mandatory $5M civil penalty on Flock to be paid directly to the victims of any abuse of these systems, then maybe I'd reconsider my opinion. Washington warned that government, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Flock cameras, in their current incarnation and distribution are gas cans and blowtorches sitting around with the hope that only responsible people will come across them and use them for their intended purposes
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