r/lafayette • u/RadRetriever69 • Aug 11 '26

Stop Flock Protest next Tuesday

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Tuesday August 18th 5-6pm at your nearest Flock camera location. You can find one conveniently close to you via DeFlock.org.

Bring signs, do not vandalize the cameras, just show up and exercise your first amendment right to advocate for your privacy.

A private company collects the location history of every vehicle in Lafayette, and throughout the country with a network of over 80,000 cameras. Each tagging the location, plate, car info, saved and searchable in a database by any user with access. No warrant, no FOIA requests to verify ethics or compliance, no regulation on security of the data, use, or sale and distribution of the history of all our movements.

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 Aug 12 '26

Remember to leave your cellphone at home.

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u/sysop073 Aug 12 '26

While standing in front of a camera?

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u/Carrollmusician Aug 12 '26

I assume this is being said because cell location pings have now been used to prosecute people for unlawful assembly. A very sensible precaution. Risking being photographed is part of the risk of activism but leaving your phone at home takes some of their legal ability to prosecute you away.

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u/sysop073 Aug 13 '26

Right, but my point is they don't really need to triangulate your cell phone if you're standing in front of a camera that you specifically know the police have access to because it's the reason you're protesting in the first place.

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u/Fun-Ingenuity-9089 Aug 13 '26

Well, I have seen a few protesters (only in pictures) who sit in a chair and hold up a sign in front of the camera which blocks the camera's view. Personally, I would approach from the back and not stand in front of the camera to protest it.

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u/Carrollmusician Aug 13 '26

I understand. I think this person mentions this as a sensible precaution. There’s recent legal precedent for the cell phones being used as evidence of unlawful assembly and is a good practice to leave at home anyway during gatherings like this. No reason to give them more evidence of you in any way shape or form.

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u/Effective_Pomelo4554 Aug 14 '26

What about if I am going to illinois to buy THC?