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There were two sets of promises made about Flock Safety’s cameras in Dunwoody. One was made to a private community center. One was made to the public. Both were broken by the same two parties.

In September 2024, Dunwoody PD Major Patrick Krieg requested access to the private security cameras at a community center on behalf of the department. When the community center pushed back and demanded to know what the access would be used for, Krieg was unambiguous: “This is solely for real-time critical incident response.” The community center agreed to share their cameras, including cameras in gymnastics rooms, pools, and fitness studios, with Dunwoody PD for emergencies.

To the broader public, the City made the same promise in a different form: Flock is a public safety tool that catches criminals and keeps your community safe. It’s only used for law enforcement purposes. When citizens raised concerns, we were given three minutes at a podium, requests for open meetings were ignored, and we were silenced by a unanimous vote.

Both promises had the same problem: while the city was making them, Flock employees were inside Dunwoody’s camera network, including a private community center’s cameras (the ones shared solely for emergencies) to allegedly pitch their product to other law enforcement agencies.

From 2023 through April 2026, Flock employees viewed live and recorded cameras in Dunwoody over 1,000 times. In 2025 alone, they searched Dunwoody citizens’ data over 400 times. No one in Dunwoody consented to this.

When I asked the City of Dunwoody to produce any agreement authorizing this, their answer was simple: “The City of Dunwoody found no records that are responsive to your request.”

There was no authorization or explicit permission. Just a promise to a community center, a promise to the public, and a company that treated both like an open door.

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Jan 23, 5pm. ICE field office on Turner Dr. Near Garnett MARTA

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Winston straight up flipped on Cop City Referendum then took part in doxing petitioners, but sadly he is unopposed. His backing of Overstreet is unsurprising seeing as the two share the same playbook (cop city, militarizing police, blocking council oversight, etc), and she claims to support transportation... as long as it is not in her backyard. So multiple strikes in my book.

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Georgia prosecutors are facing what one expert called “probably the highest-profile failure of using conspiracy charges to indict a protest movement” in US history, after a two-year attempt to prosecute a criminal conspiracy in connection with opposition to the police training center known as Cop City.

Fulton county superior court Judge Kevin Farmer announced his decision to dismiss charges against the case’s 61 defendants during hearings this week on a handful of defense attorney motions.

After an hour-plus of discussion in this week’s hearing, Farmer came back from a break and used only 18 words to stymie the state’s prosecution, nearly three years after arrests: “At this time I do not find the attorney general had the authority to bring this Rico case.”

New survey seeks info on Atlantans’ travel patterns to Hostess City, other parts of Georgia

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Peter Hubbard, a clean energy advocate, secured the Democratic Party nomination for the District 3 Georgia Public Service Commission seat Tuesday evening.  His decisive victory allows him to advance to November’s general election where he will face GOP incumbent Commissioner Fitz Johnson.  The commission regulates utilities like Georgia Power and plays an important role in […]

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#Marta needs to clean up the Midtown station! I saw two roavhes while waiting for the train.

And yes, I have reported the issue.

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Public media is facing its most immediate and serious threat yet.

The House has passed a rescissions package that would claw back $1.1 billion in public media funding already approved by law. If enacted, the impact on local stations would be swift and severe.

The Senate will take up the bill next. Send a message now urging your Senators to vote against rescinding public media funding.

Clawing back this funding – about $1.60 per person each year – wouldn’t just force stations to scale back – it would dismantle essential services that countless communities count on.

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