Posted on 08/21/2026 3:36:40 AM PDT by dennisw
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Woo hoo! 👏🏻
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.
Ping!
Yes, only google is allowed to track us,
Yes, to think that this “sleeping monster” will not be horribly misused by some in the future is totally absurd.
https://banishbigbrother.com/flock-camera-map/
The app will map you a route around the cameras.
Of course if you are traveling you will not be able to take a freeway.
They have 4 cameras watching our local hospital for some reason.
I’d just like to point out that said device requires a warrant for the data...
...plus said device’s data has exonerated multiple people from negligent prosecution resulting solely from the camera systems’ databases (not just flock).
I live on a dead end dirt road with a dozen houses on it. I recently noticed a camera mounted on a tree near the entrance to the road. I asked AI what to look for to see if it is a Flock camera. It isn’t, but the reply included information about cameras on our road. It stated that all of the property owners had to give permission to the owner of the camera in order to allow it to be active. Of course, he hadn’t asked for that from anyone.
The question, of course, is, Why isn’t Flock required to do the same??
“””I’ll take the opportunity to point out that most of you probably carry a worse surveillance / tracking device everywhere you go . . .””””
And as Rush would say, for those of you in Rio Linda, FreedomPoster is talking about SmartPhones.
Hood County it will be fitting now.
just defund the police by another name
Bravo to this constable.
>It stated that all of the property owners had to give permission to the owner of the camera in order to allow it to be active.
There’s no law thus, at least in the U.S, AFAIK.
It might be current Flock policy for private roads.
Yep, and can’t live 5 minutes without it. The drive to make us a cashless society will make them a hard, permanent fixture. Wake up people.
Point taken.. The cell phone and the computer in today's cars will rat you out every time.
I suspect cars will soon warn you a couple of times to do the seatbelt. If you fail to do so your car will call the cops on you...
Excellent point.
Or an "energy crunch" or how about a "climate emergency"
People think about these types of infringements of liberty in the current context and think, "Maybe they will be used to catch ghetto criminals or illegal immigrants."
They won't. If the "powers that be" wanted to catch them, they already have the technological ability and legal justification to do so.
No, they are putting these things in place to catch YOU once they have built a case for why they need to.
“ looks like “Hood County” is serious about their name.”
Its named after a Confederate General!
My old stomping grounds. Don’t get caught driving drunk in Hood County was a serious warning!
As someone who explained to a friend in 1999 that the E-911 law meant in due course everyone would be paying for their own tracking device, I'd like to point out that police don't have at their fingertips the ability to query where my phone has been without a warrant. Courts have ruled on this (and the Supreme Court has ruled on the type of mass surveillance that Flock is doing - they're violating the 4th amendment).
Indeed. Plus…. There are cameras literally everywhere as well. Whether folks like it or not, they should just assume theyre being watched and tracked and listened to….and act accordingly.
Fair. But it’s still true.
And just for fun, here’s a video of Darth Vader at public comment before the city council of San Diego, speaking in favor of Flock cameras.
https://x.com/catturd2/status/2090782119664533933?s=20
I hope not.
And for the record, I consider "mandatory insurance" to be a human rights violation. The state should not be requiring patronage of private industries through law.
If the state is going to require insurance, it is the State who should be collecting the taxes to pay for it.
I think people should be required to assume all risk when they choose to drive on the public roads. Constraining others from driving, especially poor people who can hardly make ends meet, is just morally wrong.
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