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De-Flocking America isn’t enough. It is well past time to rein in the psychopaths who run our governments, starting at the local level.
Leo Hohmann | Aug 07, 2026
Flock Safety Camera. Photo by TexDoe – Own work, CC0, Wikipedia
I woke up to a bizarre headline in my local newspaper one day earlier this week here in Newnan, a small city of roughly 46,000 population in Coweta County, Georgia.
As most of you know, I’ve been reporting for quite a while on the AI spy cameras blanketing America and their role in the rapidly developing surveillance state. Atlanta-based Flock Safety has more than 118,000 of these surveillance cameras in more than 6,000 American cities and towns. Axon and Motorola are also major players in the police surveillance business, so it’s not just Flock, even though Flock gets most of the attention.
So you can imagine my eyes popping out of my head when I looked at the August 4 edition of The Newnan Times Herald and saw the headline: “Three Coweta sheriff’s employees resign after audit flags Flock Safety access.”
The article contained scant information other than to tell us that three employees of our local Sheriff’s Office had been forced to resign after they were caught misusing video data they accessed from the county’s Flock surveillance cameras in violation of department policy.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the three employees met with their department heads to discuss their use of the AI-powered Flock tracking system after an internal audit flagged their activity. During those meetings, each of the three employees “resigned before the audit process was completed and before an internal investigation was opened,” the article stated.
The sheriff’s office did not identify the employees, describe the nature of their positions, or specify what activity triggered the review. Whatever they did, it must have been very embarrassing to the Sheriff for him to so quickly dismiss them with no further information provided.
At the end of the article, it was casually reported that our local Sheriff would provide us with no more information on the unethical activity of his three employees, and that the entire case had been turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI). Any further information will have to come from the GBI, which pretty much guarantees that we will never get any substantial information on what type of mischief occurred in Newnan, Georgia, because we’ve now essentially got Georgia cops investigating themselves.
If this case is anything similar to others across America involving the misuse of Flock cameras, we likely have a situation where law enforcement was spying on people in the community or tracking their movement, perhaps an ex-spouse, a girlfriend or hoped-for romantic interest, or some other personal use of the Flock surveillance technology that had nothing to do with actual law enforcement.
Here’s what should infuriate every citizen of Coweta County and every other community where these cameras are popping up along every major highway, secondary roads, bike paths, parks, shopping center parking lots and walking trails: If the police use this technology to track all of us, that’s allegedly good and proper. But if one of their employees uses it to track a particular individual, that’s considered bad.
Why not get rid of the cameras altogether? Americans don’t like being spied on by their government. It’s a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and needs to stop. Until it does, we have no privacy and live as slaves. The prying eyes of government are watching our every move, then using the information in secret ways only they are privy to.
On this topic of surveillance cameras, I’d like to share what may be the most thorough article I’ve seen yet on why we should fight to get these spy cameras removed. The article was authored and posted to Substack Friday, August 7, by Dr. Joseph Sansone, a psychotherapist and author of the book Psychopathic Authoritarianism: A Disease of the Soul. Below is an excerpt from his must-read article titled “Flock Cameras are a Systemic Manifestation of Severe Psychopathic Authoritarianism.” Read it to the end to get not only a brilliant psychological analysis of our sick society, but the all-important historical perspective.
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By Dr. Joseph Sansone
Flock Cameras have sprung up all across the United States. These cameras are all across America, from Florida to California. From Blue State to Red State, regardless of which political party is in power, these cameras are appearing. It is simply amazing how Republicans and Democrats can all work together, or at least look the other way, while a prison-style surveillance grid is being deployed along our roadways from sea to shining sea.
Flock cameras are AI-powered, solar-powered Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). The cameras take a snapshot and create a digital fingerprint. The cameras read license plates and identify the registered state and create a vehicle fingerprint by identifying the vehicles’ color, make, model, and body type, even retaining specific details such as roof cracks, bumper stickers, dents, trailers, or scratches. It also retains metadata such as the exact timestamp, direction of travel, and location.
Allegedly the cameras allow police to create real time hot lists to compare vehicles against crime databases and retroactively search the activities of vehicles related to crime scenes. Police can also track vehicle histories across state lines. This must be why we have a crime-free America.
Make no mistake. The cameras are not being deployed to catch criminals. The cameras are being deployed to criminalize citizenship.
These cameras create a permanent map of law-abiding citizens and can record exactly where you sleep, work, worship, or socialize, completely destroying the right to move anonymously in an alleged free society. The cameras can be used to target political dissent by tracking who attended rallies and protests and can retroactively search the cameras surrounding the event to log the vehicle descriptions, license plates, and identities of every attendee. Cross-state surveillance allows one state to police actions in another state.
This is all done without a search warrant or probable cause. General warrants were one of the primary causes leading to the American Revolution.
Flock cameras criminalize citizenship and create the further unlawful disparity of power between civilians and the government they employ. Flock cameras further the inversion of power that already exists between government and the people.
Flock cameras will be used to restrict driving and enforce energy or climate lockdowns. In cities like London, massive networks of ALPR cameras are actively used to enforce the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and congestion boundaries. If a human enters the zone with a non-compliant vehicle or during restricted hours, they will be mailed an excessive fine.
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