Our town is turning into a surveillance dragnet—help us stop it
Elkton's town council installed Flock Safety license plate readers without asking residents. These cameras track everywhere we go—our jobs, churches, protests, doctor visits—and store it all in a private database that law enforcement can access without a warrant.
I started a petition demanding the removal of these cameras. The cameras misidentify plates 10% of the time, there's little evidence they actually reduce crime, and the data is vulnerable to abuse. We've seen stories of officials using this data to track exes, and ICE using it to bypass local restrictions. It's not about being anti-police—it's about the fact that we never consented to this, and it treats innocent people like suspects.
Anyone else feel like mass surveillance is getting normalized without us even getting a say? If this matters to you too, consider signing and sharing the petition. We need our town council to hear that Elkton residents want privacy, not a high-tech dragnet.