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🎙️ The 850 Podcast | Surveillance, Transparency & Your Rights
In this episode of The 850 Podcast, we break down one of the most uncomfortable conversations local government doesn’t want to have — modern surveillance, transparency failures, and your constitutional rights.
We dive deep into:
How advanced surveillance systems like license-plate readers and real-time crime centers are being deployed
Whether a police chief may have bypassed the city commission and broken internal policy
Why after-the-fact ratification is a red flag, not reassurance
What Florida Sunshine Law actually requires
Who has access to surveillance data — and who’s supposed to be watching the watchers
Whether these systems raise Fourth Amendment concerns
How the Carpenter v. United States Supreme Court decision changed surveillance law
The real pros vs cons of tools like Flock cameras and regional crime centers
Data retention, mission creep, access abuse, and lack of audits
Whether surveillance tools can produce disparate or discriminatory outcomes
And how these systems could be used as supporting evidence in red-flag (RPO) cases
This episode isn’t anti-police.
It’s pro-process, pro-accountability, and pro-citizen.
Transparency matters. Oversight matters. And when powerful technology is involved, the public has a right to know who approved it, when, and how it’s being used.
Watch the full episode and decide for yourself.
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