AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency (washingtonpost.com)

> Last month, Mayor Carmella Mantello, flanked by officers in blue, accused the city council of “defunding” the police and declared a state of emergency to keep the cameras running, a designation usually reserved for floods and blizzards. “I will not put our city in jeopardy and take these cameras away,” she said. The lengths that this Mayor goes to to keep the cameras on raises suspicion.

I had to navigate around Troy when visiting Vermont because of these cameras. It wasn't trivial due to the river crossing.

There's a very small number of people committing crimes worthy of these cameras, and there's also a small number of people not willing to do business with clients of camera purveyors.

Have any towns tried putting most of the cameras in functional bird feeders, bird boxes and other decorative objects? If so did anyone notice them?

I'm curious why there isn't a counter protest that is more extreme.

Set up your own cameras and publish publicly the movements of politicians that claim this is for safety. Nothing illegal about pointing a camera at the entrance to city hall and logging entries and exits of politicians to a website. Hell, afaict, nothing illegal about pointing a camera at their house and doing the same.

Something in the spirit of celebrity jet trackers, but at a local level.

The hardware/software isn't particularly difficult. Some loudmouth like Rossman could get this moving.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear right?