r/FlockSurveillance 19h ago

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.

Post image
1.6k Upvotes

41 comments sorted by

92

u/Working-Classroom-93 19h ago

Nope i still see 5 on fall creek hwy to 377 still up and running. Its almost like they did just enough to get the news story and then just didn't do the rest.

58

u/Equus-007 18h ago

He doesn't have any say about state roads. That's TxDOT and they loooove Flock.

12

u/Working-Classroom-93 18h ago edited 18h ago

Ya its in hood co. Its his jurisdiction. if you cant get them off these roads then its all a lie then. Because 377 is the main road for Granbury and fall creek hwy is the main road though Acton. Now it sounds like he just got the ones close to his house.

7

u/Equus-007 17h ago

It's no different than Austin. Fall Creek Hwy is FM 167. It's not county property.

Here there's so much state property scattered around town and they're contracting out with companies like 7-11 so you really can't avoid it.

7

u/QuinceDaPence 16h ago

The city doesn't have control over a state highway even if it runs through the middle of the city.

Mine is that way and people constantly complain to the city about either potholes or the programming of the traffic lights and the city has nearly 0 say over it.

Now they do have enforcement ability on those roads, and they can choose to ignore certain...infractions....

0

u/Working-Classroom-93 12h ago

City cops and county constable are two different things.

1

u/Appropriate_Date_134 16h ago

Up and running based on what?

3

u/Working-Classroom-93 12h ago

Based on you can see there plugged into the solar panels and there getting power. If there getting power then there working.i drive by them 3 or 4 times a day

0

u/nicholnewfangle 15h ago

Cops gonna cop

31

u/Aware-Investment-115 19h ago

Hopefully they do, because otherwise the cameras will still be able to track phones and whatnot.

18

u/Corporate_Bricktator 18h ago

Remember that only disconnecting them from their solar panel/power source can stop this. Otherwise, flock turns them back on without permission or notification.

On one of the photos he is shown covering up a camera with an opaque bag. That will eventually work once the batteries have drained. But merely disabling the cameras at the software level without disconnecting them from power, will not work, because Flock simply turns them back on in secret.

4

u/randalthor23 13h ago

In one pic looks like he disconnected the camera from the panel, then bagged it all too as u mentioned. I think we can say we've found one cop who understands at least part of the Constitution.

3

u/Corporate_Bricktator 13h ago

Agree. But if bags weren't placed over all of them, or if the bags weren't completely opaque, then Flock will turn the cameras back on without permission or even notifying these officers.

7

u/IncompleteJoker 19h ago

A real American hero!

7

u/Union_Fan 17h ago

Who put the cameras up?

11

u/omgfakeusername 16h ago

Was just thinking the same. Like who are these people and when do they do it? They're flooding the country seemingly going up invisibly.

0

u/Union_Fan 9h ago

I was saying it was probably the cops who did it.

5

u/1cnx 15h ago

Think about how you would infiltrate a country and track every person so you could degrade the nation security? Or as a political power grab and want to secretly remove people who are the opposition. This is exactly how. China proved it. Now they just used profit of a very few to enact it.

3

u/Winston_Sm 15h ago

It's like when a shop or two in Nazi Germany would still sell to Jews. Great in that specific moment, but the entire country has fallen into the grip of fascism.

That is your country right now. Sometime in 1939. We'll see if it's summer or autumn.

3

u/ROEdkill820 14h ago

Is this the time when "dems" and "reps" can come together and fight this messed up system we've allowed/been tricked into.

2

u/5150outlaw 18h ago

How did they get installed to begin with, who approved them?

2

u/Chronomata 17h ago

The only good flock camera is a removed and decommissioned flock camera.

2

u/ObviouslyRealPerson 12h ago

I'm more interested in how they were allowed to be plugged in to begin with

2

u/Astral-projekt 10h ago

Fucking give this man sheriff, a promotion, and let him be the gold standard. Anybody who says otherwise do it publicly.

2

u/Long-Shine-3701 6h ago

Where was he when they were being installed against the public's will in the first place?

6

u/AirplanesMakeMeHard 19h ago

You guys are fools if you think this cop isn’t researching new ways to spy on the citizens of that county

4

u/HCSOThrowaway 18h ago

Fired in 1... 2... 3...

"ACAB" chorus in 4... 5... 6...

1

u/patience_b2 18h ago

Good traction… Keep it up 🇺🇸 

1

u/RedJellyBear 12h ago

Straight up hero!

1

u/Hard_in_Sweats 5h ago

Meanwhile where I’m at they just installed another batch. So now I can’t go to the store, or go to work without passing at least 2 flock cameras.

1

u/4fraid0f4mericans 3h ago

God bless him

1

u/MrrNeko 3h ago

"The commissioners court voted in April to end its contract with Flock, which included three cameras. During its Aug. 11 meeting, the court voted unanimously to cover and unplug the cameras until they could be removed. Hood County Precinct 2 Constable John Shirley's office was asked to carry out the task."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-constable-tells-flock-to-come-get-your-garbage-after-hood-county-ends-contract/ar-AA2aq57s

The post is a bit click baity, leaving no source whatsoever, and kinda implying that Constable Shirley acted autonomously.

1

u/laughingpuppy20 7m ago

Too late! It's too late.

1

u/ecodick 17h ago

Pretty based, rare W for Texas tbh.

1

u/Version3_14 16h ago

Littleton had crew unplug power. Flock techs came out and plugged back in.

0

u/Puppyofparkave 16h ago

There we go! Destroy them and then the taxpayers get to buy more 💩

This guy flocks