You Are Being
Tracked
AI cameras keep a record of everywhere you drive — plate, make, model, time, and place.
WHAT THE CAMERAS DO
- ▲Keep a searchable record of everywhere you drive
- ▲Log your plate — AND make, model, color, even bumper stickers ("Vehicle Fingerprint")
- ▲Store your trips for 30 days
- ▲Feed a national database — searchable by outside agencies, no warrant required
- ▲Approved without your vote
THEY TOLD US OUTSIDE AGENCIES COULDN'T SEARCH IT
3,308 Agencies in
46 States
Beg to Differ
In one month — July 7 to August 6, 2026 — police departments across the country ran over 1 million searches against Johnson City's cameras. 95% of them came from outside Tennessee. Texas alone searched us more than three times as often as every Tennessee agency combined. The FBI searched us 16,234 times.
THEY CALL THEM “LICENSE PLATE READERS”
A Wheelbarrow Does Not
Have a License Plate
Local officials keep calling these cameras Automated License Plate Readers. Records obtained from the Johnson City Police prove otherwise. Between April and June 2026, JCPD ran searches like these:
VEHICLES — NO PLATE REQUIRED
- “white suv”
- “black dodge ram”
- “black ford f150”
- “pickup truck”
- “large pickup truck”
- “wheelbarrow”
AND THEN THEY SEARCHED FOR PEOPLE
- “a male wearing a tan or brown baseball hat”
- “person walking”
- “female wearing black pants and a black sports bra”
These searches expose what the cameras actually are. Not plate readers — 24/7 AI-powered government surveillance of people.
DeFlock Johnson City — “How JCPD is using the Flock surveillance network in our town”
Take Down
These Cameras
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