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

Citizens turned out in droves at a meeting of the New Hanover County Commission in Wilmington, NC to demand removal of Flock surveillance cameras from the county.  It was a bi-partisan crowd and among the 41 outraged citizens who spoke against Flock, the star was clearly a conservative Republican beekeeper, Barry Harris.

The New Hanover Sheriffs Department operates 19 of the Flock license plate reader surveillance cameras, and citizens who value their privacy want them GONE.  Some of these spy cameras also collect information on electronic devices such as cell phones on cars that pass by.  Numerous cities around the country have already been de-Flocked by local governments prohibiting the systems.

One remembers the slogan from Orwell's "1984" of "Big Brother is Watching You".  Flock is now a public-private partnership "Big Brother" that is invading the privacy of Americans.  Their system creates a database from all of their spy cameras across America, and they can take a license plate and make a printout of every time it has passed one of their spy cameras.  Already, there have been multiple cases around the country of people in law enforcement using access to those databases to stalk current or former romantic partners. One such case was in Charlotte, NC.

Presently, there are only two Flock spy cameras in Beaufort County, at the two entrances of Lowes in Washington.  Flock is essentially a "public-private partnership" KGB and is un-American in the extreme.

https://dailycaller.com/2026/08/27/barry-harris-new-hanover-county-meeting-anti-flock-protest-surveillance-wilmington-north-carolina/