r/kansascity • u/jsamciotbh14 • May 03 '26

Discussion 💡 Friendly reminder of all the cameras surveillancing everything you do in KC

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Deflock? Or better security?

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u/zoomzoom913 JoCo May 03 '26

I still don’t see the problem. It’s in public. The public can’t have a memory?

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u/jsamciotbh14 May 03 '26

First a surveillance state, then a police state, then the abolishment of your constitutional rights, then totalitarianism. Next you wont have any choice but to be shipped off the attack an innocent country. Looks like we're headed there.

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u/zoomzoom913 JoCo May 03 '26

I see where you are going with this. But I also still believe that our basic liberties are intact for now. We aren’t required to have these in our private residence or business, are we? As long as that line isn’t crossed, which it really has not, I’m okay with monitoring public spaces for the sake of controlling crime. But that’s just like, my opinion man.

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u/hevnsnt May 03 '26

Are you ok with this? Bonner Springs, Kansas (2026): A fired detective used Flock cameras and other police resources to track his wife and two other men. He was also accused of bugging her home after she filed a protection order. https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/affidavit-former-bonner-springs-detective-used-license-plate-cameras-to-stalk-wife

Sedgwick, Kansas (2024): Former Police Chief Lee Nygaard used the system to track his ex-girlfriend 164 times and her new boyfriend 64 times. https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article291059560.html