Atlanta group demands Flock camera reduction

A grassroots group says flock cameras have not decreased crime in our communities. At a news conference today they say video surveillance is meant to control people. They want police to reduce the number of cameras in Atlanta. Fox has Angelique Proctor joins us from City Hall with more on this controversial topic. Angelique. Yeah good afternoon to you both. Well this grassroots organization says that flock cameras have really robbed Metro Atlantans of their privacy. They call them tools of invasion. But of course as you and I know law enforcement says these flock cameras have helped them solve a whole lot of crimes. Well the organization today believes Atlanta has too many cameras. They claim we have gone from 3,300 in 2021 to more than 28,600 in 2026. They say these cameras are watching our every move and giving police unconstitutional access to residents while making millions for private companies. But the co-founder of Flock which is an Atlanta-based company says the technology is improving and helping to solve a substantial number of crimes. So we have to say that we don't want Flock in our city. Just like we didn't want Cop City, we don't want Flock City. We want Flock to be gone. We want the mass surveillance system to be gone. We want people in Atlanta to enjoy their freedom and their liberty without the intrusion of corporations here to make profit off of people's misery at the behest of city officials. I believe solve about a million crimes with our technology. 10,000 missing people have gone home because of it. This feels like pretty small in comparison. Now Flock tells Fox 5 they have new technology that will allow the system to easily identify anybody that is abusing it. We also learned that the city of Atlanta's police department is doing a 30-day audit of its Flock cameras. We are still waiting to find out what the results of that are. That is the very latest from City Hall. Angelique Proctor, Fox 5. All right, Angelique, thanks.