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I have a win to report.

Effective immediately after last night's meeting, the town turned off 19/23 of these cameras!

I spoke, but it was the eloquence of others as well as the new board of Trustees that were the MVPs

The 4 cameras that stayed active are at places like the water treatment plant and water storage.

While more work needs to happen to get this type of camera out of the town for good, it was good progress.

The town must provide a cost estimate to switch to a closed loop system

I speak at 4:09:32

It was a LOOOONG meeting
https://t.co/40qre1ekZB

Ben Justman🍷 @BenJustman · 14w

My small town with absolutely minimal crime put up AI surveillance cameras. Tonight is the second town council meeting about them. The last one was intense afaik. I think I'm gonna go. Any advice?

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Chiefwhite · 14w

you are awesome man

Fuck yeah! That's progress.

That's awesome.

Kajoozie Maflingo · 14w

you threw shade instead of shit. well done.

IntuitiveGuy☯️ · 14w

Very, very well done. Partecipating in an active way in our each own community does much more than what we think, short term, but mostly long term.

Tyler Burns · 14w

Wow, awesome work Ben. It is good to see that results can still come from speaking truth to power. Hopefully push back like this succeeds in small towns all across the country.

Swear Jar · 14w

bitbuybyte · 14w

Local politics win all day everyday.

Polite Camel · 14w

More people need to see this.

Making a difference 🫡

Great news... good on you and your community... thnx for sharing!

oh man just checked your little town online. So cute! and the landscapes... gosh so gorgeous. and you make wine... my man! :D

nostrich · 14w

Good things can happen at the local level.

satsie 🇹🇭 🇱🇹 · 14w

Great work! Are these the Flock cameras? There’s a lot of resistance in my city to them and I’m curious if these are the same ones.

Kudos on engaging in your local government. This is where change starts 🧡

Comte de Sats Germain · 14w

We must replicate this in every town in north america

sats>bits · 13w

Showing up matters!!

Bruno SlingshotVPN · 13w

Matt - Not Your Entropy, Not Your Coins · 13w

Having them for the water source is the least aggregious place I could think to have them. Security there makes a lot of sense if no other option is available.

Guys will see this and say hell yeah

Excellent update. Praise God.

Thomas Forsyth · 13w

That is a ray of hope! Please do keep everyone updated on this

IvorTollah · 13w

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Way to give a shit. Good job!

Tam | FAFORocks · 13w

Very happy for you, congratulations! Yesterday we had a town council meeting, the objectors were mostly ignored (not cameras yet privacy is a major part of it). I live in a place with high crime rate, there are cameras everywhere - your remarks are all on points.

Willy Cooper · 13w

more people need to be like you and get involved at the local level.

vinney...axkl · 13w

very well done!!

My favorite part was how many times she had to tell people to stop clapping 😂

Kurt Croix · 13w

I went to my commission about banning these. Their initial comments were "we don't know anything about this , let us research and get back to you". The next time I brought it up their response was "we don't use them, it's the municipality". Then when I came back because the sheriff told me, yes t...