Bastrop, Texas just voted to cover its Flock surveillance cameras and put contract termination on the agenda. Dozens of residents showed up. The city acted in one meeting. Here’s how it happened, and how you can do the same thing in your town.
In this episode of Live Free Now, John Bush breaks down the Bastrop Flock fight from the inside: the open records requests, the contract clauses nobody read, the difference between the two Flock audit reports that ended Pflugerville’s program, and the exact steps activists can use to get automatic license plate readers out of their own cities and counties.
Flock isn’t the only camera on the pole. This is one battle in a much larger fight against the surveillance state being built around us, and it’s one we can win at the local level.
WHAT WE COVER:
– How Bastrop went from a study committee to a termination vote in two weeks
– The two-report trick that hides who’s really searching your town’s cameras
– Why turning cameras off is not the same as ending the contract
– The 8-step playbook to remove Flock from your city or county
– Why the real goal is banning ALPRs altogether, not just switching vendors
Whether you’re in a small town or a big city, red county or blue, this is cross-partisan and it’s winnable. Over 80 jurisdictions in 28 states have already ended their Flock contracts. Yours can be next.
Fighting bad policy is not the ideal way to create greater freedom. The best way is building the alternatives to government and big tech that let us live free right now. If you want to organize beyond politics and help build those alternatives, join us for our next Freedom Cell social dinner at Community Gardens here in Bastrop County:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1391604606249179/
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