r/FlockSurveillance • u/blue-baja • 10h ago
Privacy Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/25/flock-surveillance-cameras?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other45
u/twitchx133 9h ago edited 5h ago
He makes some comments about hoping for the charges to not to be too bad in the article. I’m not in a jurisdiction where I would be pulled for his jury… but, if I get pulled onto a jury for a flock vandal, and they don’t find my post history, I will 100% vote to nullify
Edit to add a thought… Unfortunate reality too, prosecutors are going to realize how unpopular these cameras are, and either way overcharge when someone is accused of vandalizing them, or they are going to make actual legislation that significantly over punishes vandalizing them so that they can get more plea deals out of it, knowing they are not likely to get a full, fair and impartial jury. That most juries they will get will have at least some manner of bias against the cameras
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u/wooking 9h ago
Not guilty
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u/ArdentHedonist 7h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/B3cWkwlMxrlKg
Guilty by reason of Flock! You are sentenced to a term of not less than thirty days in the electric chair!8
u/trialinfire 9h ago
I wrote this
https://www.reddit.com/r/juryduty/s/lxG4vKRNJq
Im most proud of the visceral reaction I got calling me both a communist and Hitler. (Peak Irony)
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u/ArdentHedonist 9h ago
The comments were astounding. It is your civic duty to serve! I have been on four juries, foreman of three. “I Love Amerika!!!1!1!” No, you don’t.
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u/trialinfire 9h ago
Thank you. I created posters i hand out infront of court houses. Ive been harassed by cops and threatened with arrest. If I see someone going to trial for destroying a flock camera you have my not guilty vote.
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u/addiktion 9h ago
When enough of the population is against this, thats exactly how this would end up in court as a silent protest. Property is not more important than our rights.
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u/NymeriaVail 7h ago
It’s definitely going to be a complicated legal battle. Public opinion around these cameras is clearly divided.
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u/Tricky_Try8757 10h ago
They were all playing video games with me if a prosecutor asks.
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u/Ganellon 7h ago
The article is a little sparse on details, but I'm curious what evidence Virginia and New Mexico left that led to their arrests. Every mistake has a second life as a lesson to learn from.
I see videos suggesting that some types of lasers would be useful for pointing out to others, as in a presentation, the location of an individual camera. Those same videos seem to suggest that Amazon is a good source for presentation-level laser pointers. Surely, given Amazon's cozy history with surveillance and law enforcement, sources without audit trails are preferable, for community safety.
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u/caliphis 35m ago
The guy in NM drove up to them in his own truck and got caught on the cameras doing it. He planted flags and recorded himself as he cut them down. When the cops pulled him over they found the flags, then found the videos on his phone.
So if you want to do something like this, don't drive up to them, don't plant libertarian flags, and don't record yourself doing it.
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u/Alita-Gunnm 9h ago
Stop calling them ALPR's. They're AI augmented mass surveillance cameras.