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Playing Guitar 🎸/ Georgia corruption/4 'Thabo AND Ray/ FLOCK cameras.....

Gloves R OFF ! · 5 months ago

The short version: A pro-se Georgia litigant named Ray takes on local corruption tied to Flock ALPR cameras, and the creator cheers him on in a loose, personal video.

Our Take

Channel Gloves R OFF! dropped a rambling, part-tribute, part-watchdog video that lands on something worth paying attention to: a Georgia resident named Ray fighting alleged corruption connected to Flock Safety's license plate readers, all while representing himself in court. Whatever you think of the presentation, the underlying story is familiar to anyone tracking ALPR rollouts β€” ordinary people discovering that a quiet vote to install 'public safety cameras' can tangle up with local politics, contracts, and data-sharing deals nobody fully explained to the public.

We can't verify the specifics of the case from the video alone, and we're not going to repeat claims we haven't confirmed. But the pattern β€” a citizen forced to become his own lawyer just to get straight answers about why a private surveillance company's cameras are scanning his town's roads β€” is exactly the kind of grassroots pushback this fight needs. Flock's network keeps expanding largely because most people never ask who approved it or what the data-sharing agreements actually say.

If you want to know whether Flock cameras are already watching your commute, check our camera map, and if you're ready to push back locally like Ray is doing in Georgia, our take-action guide walks you through records requests, city council meetings, and local organizing.

This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Gloves R OFF !, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.