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Residents press council over "Rolling Thunder" checkpoints, camera surveillance and ICE detentions; mayor says the state agency ran the operation
Summary
Several residents criticized Operation Rolling Thunder, Flock camera surveillance and ICE detainments during public comment at a Warner Robins City Council meeting; the mayor told the council the operation had been run by a state agency.
Several residents used the Warner Robins City Council public-comment period to criticize Operation Rolling Thunder, the city’s Flock camera surveillance program and immigration detainments they said tore families apart.
Minister Crumpton, who gave his address at the meeting, invoked the Fourth Amendment and called mass surveillance “repugnant to the Constitution,” saying the city’s use of camera tracking and automated systems can undermine due process. "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated," Crumpton said. "Under the banner of public safety, our privacy . . . has been compromised by mass surveillance through the Flock camera…
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