WTF?
Local Florida news is now asking residents to hand police live access to their Ring cameras.
After DeSantis and FDOT ordered Flock license plate readers off state roads over privacy abuses and “surveillance state” concerns, a bunch of sheriffs and PDs dumped them. Officers in multiple Florida agencies had already been caught using the system to stalk exes.
So Pensacola PD and the Escambia County Sheriff are leaning harder on “voluntary” home camera registries. The sheriff’s office already has 1,272 cameras integrated into its Real Time Crime Center and 1,439 on the list.
They openly say they want to take advantage of all the Ring doorbells people already have pointing at the street.
City police claim they only get your contact info and can’t watch live. The county side has a live-feed option if you plug in.
They lost the government cameras on public roads, so now they want your private doorbell as the replacement network. Same dragnet, just crowdsourced and sitting on your front porch.