Thank you — now let's finish the job. Monday, Oct 19.
To the 4,125 of you who signed to get Flock out of the Cape Fear: thank you. Your names are why commissioners are listening.
A quick win worth celebrating: the town of Atkinson, right here in Pender County, just became the first community in North Carolina to ban automated license-plate-reader cameras outright. A town of a few hundred people showed the whole state it can be done.
Here's where you come in next. In September, New Hanover County voted to cancel its Flock contract — a huge victory you helped win. But the Flock "Condor" cameras are still up. The fight isn't over until they come down.
👉 Monday, October 19 — New Hanover County Commissioners meeting (evening session). We need a crowd in the room to finish this and take the Condors down. If you can be there, be there. Numbers in the room move a board more than anything else.
And New Hanover isn't the only one. Brunswick, Columbus, Pender, and Onslow counties — and the beach towns (Carolina Beach, Kure Beach, Wrightsville Beach) — all have meetings coming up, and every one needs residents who will speak.
Find your meeting (dates, times, and how to speak):
👉 https://deflockilm.org/events/
Two more things that take one minute each:
Make this statewide. Add your name to our North Carolina petition — the more NC signers, the more weight every local fight carries:
👉 https://www.change.org/EndFlockNC
Get the alerts. Change.org can't tell you when Flock lands on your town or county's agenda. We can. Sign up and we'll tell you when — and when to show up:
👉 https://deflockilm.org/end-flock-surveillance-north-carolina/
See you on the 19th.
— DeFlockILM