Fairfield County, Ohio, USA | RightChief - 1/1/2026 10:39
Big thing "Here" is LPR's, (license plate readers). LPR's are sprouting up everywhere, even along our secondary HWY's. Cops are saying the LPR is just to catch stolen cars and fugitives. It's just a matter of time till we start getting tickets in the mail for any infraction they can catch you at.
ALPR is now all over my area too, in southeastern Ohio, and it makes me angry every time I pass one. For a while I tried to alter my driving routine to avoid them, but now there are enough of them that it's impractical. And it's altogether impossible for anyone to visit a Kroger or Lowes or Menards near me and not be captured by ALPR.
This website attempts to catalog all of the known Flock cameras -- https://deflock.me . Flock is a very major ALPR provider, but there are numerous others out there, too.
I'm generally a somewhat-liberal "live and let live, just leave everyone alone" kind of guy, but these damn things make me want to knock on doors and get petitions signed to make them constitutionally illegal.
The worst part of it? Amazon's Ring cameras are now integrated with Flock, and police have access to them. Amazon claims that they will always ask the Ring camera's owner for permission before using anything their camera saw, but how the technology works under the hood proves that it was designed for police to be able to get unrestricted access without anyone knowing. Ring is just as bad, if not worse, than Flock at this point. |
Monitoring, where will it lead
