Who is impacted?: Every single citizen of the City of Thomasville has been under 24/7 AI powered surveillance since late 2025, and the state, as well as the city plan to expand this surveillance in the future. The City of Thomasville and Thomasville PD entered contract with the controversial “Flock Safety” and have installed 11 Flock Safety Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR’s) around the city. These “license plate readers” do far more than simply scan your license plate. They serve far more nefarious purposes beyond simply aiding the police in specific investigations. These lies are the ones fed to city councils across the U.S. by Flock executives to lull the people they’re supposed to serve into believing these highly pervasive “LPR’s” pose no threat to your privacy, constitutional rights, freedoms or liberties. Each time a citizen of Thomasville NC drives past one of these “LPR’s”, 6-12 detailed photographs are snapped cataloguing your speed, your direction coming or going, your precise location complete with a time stamp of exactly when you were there, and creates a “vehicle fingerprint” using machine learning AI (which often flags innocent individuals as wanted criminals) to catalogue every single identifying detail of your car. Make, model, stickers, decals, roof racks, modifications, dents, dings, and scratches. This far exceeds the stated purpose of “scanning plates for use in specific investigations”. The images and metadata are pushed to Amazon web services and AWS GovCloud, and many are retained despite supposed retention limits for the purposes of “training” the AI. To cover the basics, the City of Thomasville City Government and Thomasville Police Department have contracted with a third party corporate entity to siphon all of your travel data without a warrant, subverting the 4th amendment, to catalogue every single identifying marker of your car, as well as real time time stamps of your locations and movements creating a heat map of your personal private travel within YOUR city. Every single citizen. Every single day. You’ve been turned into a suspect regardless of innocence, and in the eyes of The City Government and Thomasville PD, every one of us are guilty until proven innocent. All without a warrant. What’s at stake?: Quite simply put, our entire democracy and the American way of life we all strive to live is in danger of being stolen by AI surveillance corporations and sold back to you through Central Bank Digital Currencies, biometric AI surveillance and social credit scoring, all monitored by tech just like Flock “LPR’s” as seen in China, the UK, and now Mexico and Canada. Nowhere on the constitution do the founders ever say “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about”, and this manipulative ploy is trotted out by city councils all over the country to trick people into giving up their most valuable rights. The City of Thomasville City Government has proven to me through personal experience to be just the same. Every one of us have the right to keep things to ourselves and to not share them with the state. These systems have ALREADY proven to be prone to abuse as at least 18 police officers have been charged with using Flock “LPR’s” to stalk romantic partners, exes, and other private citizens. Other investigations have shown that the true number of abuses are likely much higher as not every occurrence triggers an internal audit or investigation. This danger of stalking and harassment can and will be easily shifted to political dissidents to stifle their 1st amendment rights and intimidate them from exercising their rights to petition the government for a redress of grievances, or organizing peaceful rallies and protests. When you have a running tab on every citizen’s movements 24/7, the ability to stalk, harass and violate the citizens rights rises by orders of magnitude. Add to the fact that all of YOUR data is shared with everyone who is contracted with Flock, as well as federal agencies like the FBI, and the intimidation against law abiding citizens is massively increased. If we don’t say anything, we stand to lose EVERYTHING. Why is NOW the time to act: Most of these systems have only been in use across the U.S. since between 2022-2025. Thankfully citizens in various cities across the country have stood up, said NO, and forced their city councils to cancel their contracts and remove the cameras. This is the goal, and if we keep up the momentum we can strike a massive blow against the surveillance state. Many AI billionaires are bought into the surveillance grid and are pushing for data centers across the U.S. to force the rest of us into digital serfdom, and their data centers will be fed by systems like Flock “LPR’s”. By standing up NOW and forcing the Thomasville City Government to cancel the contract and remove the cameras, we can decisively tell the NC state government, and the federal government and anti-democratic AI corporate billionaires that we DO NOT consent to having our rights to privacy stripped, our personal data stolen without a warrant, and that we will not accept a digital prison, CBDC’s, social credit scoring or AI mass surveillance. We must remind our local government that they do not have the power. WE DO.