Comments for southeastern NC citizens tell county commissioners to remove Flock surveillance cameras | Eastern NC Now

Have y'all read or heard about the angle that Lenoir County is using to change public opinion on Flock cameras?

They used one to find a missing man, allegedly.

Watch how this goes and take notes on the public response. The political handlers are upset that people are calling them out on their bullshit and standing up to the privacy of the community being violated.

Common sense folks are calling things as they see them and it ain't sitting well with the "powers that be". Many of them know they're royally screwed especially in the polls of public opinion.

Commented: Sunday, August 30th, 2026 @ 11:41 am By: John Valley

We should remember that it was our own Representative Keith Kidwell who blocked authorization of these license plate readers in the NC House for years. Finally, the RINOs pushing the things took advantage of an excused medical absence of Kidwell to slip the license plate readers as a committee substitute into a bill at the last minute while he was out to get it past him. Kidwell has been a stalwart in protecting our rights and freedoms.

Commented: Saturday, August 29th, 2026 @ 6:37 pm By: Conservative Voter

The City of Greenville felt some substantial heat from informed citizens over the issue of Flock cameras. It was substantial enough that a public press release was put out on social media.

The Washington City Council should be taking notes on this as it's an issue that they will have to face the remaining voters on. This isn't a partisan matter, it's a matter of common sense.

If they drop the ball and continue to allow our data to be stored, sold and distributed.....they just need to pack it up and go back to the house.

Commented: Saturday, August 29th, 2026 @ 1:03 pm By: John Valley

There are two Flock license plate reader cameras at Lowes, one near the highway at each of the entrances. They have solar panels on top for power and are painted black so you don't notice them. They send the data on every license plate that enters Lowes to the national computer bank operated by Flock and stored there. Some Flock systems also collect data on electronic devices like cell phones that may be in each car, but it is not certain if these cameras have that capability. All of them record licenses plates and send that data to Flocks national database.

Commented: Friday, August 28th, 2026 @ 8:53 pm By: John Steed

While a homeowner or business that has mounted cameras on their property that record for their own local use video of what goes on around their property, and these videos get routinely discarded after a short period, not sent to a national database, is certainly reasonable, Flock crosses the line by building a computerized national database. That is a huge invasion of privacy and should not be allowed. It would not surprise me at all if some of our foreign adversaries are not already hacked into that database for their own purposes. After all, Twitter / X just announced that they had found that the Chinese Communists have a big bot farm hacking into American datacenters. Then too, there is no telling who Flock is selling this data to.

It is shameful that Lowes is part of this scheme. Why would anyone want to shop somewhere that sends your license plate and perhaps other data off to a national database? There are, after all, local alternatives for much of what Lowes sells that DO NOT send that data off to somebody's database.

Commented: Friday, August 28th, 2026 @ 6:51 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer