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Machine transcription of 283 recorded meetings — 9% of decided items have one. Speaker names are inferred from voice and can be wrong.
- Public comment on cameras, ordinances, and ag lands
Adam Brusselback Hello, my name is Adam Brusselback. I live at [address removed]. I'm a software engineer and a small business owner. I'm asking you not to approve more license plate cameras, and I don't think the ones that are already up should be there. One camera reading one plate tells you nothing about a wider pattern of life. Neither does a hundred separate readings sitting in a hundred separate places. But put them together in a database and the pattern bec appears that nobody intentionally collected and nobody approved. which neighborhood a car sleeps in, where it goes on weekday mornings, where which church, which doctor, which meetings, and who else's car was parked there. That pattern isn't a single record. It comes out of assembling them. And once the system exists, assembling them takes a few seconds. There's a reason the Fourth Amendment exists. Before
- Public comment on cameras, ordinances, and ag lands
Adam Brusselback The cameras just feed it. With Action, the integration is the product, plate readers, body cameras, in-car video, drones, and a mapping platform wired into the state and national databases. All of which from or all of it comes from the same vendor under one contract. Every piece added makes the pattern sharper. None of it comes back to this board for a vote. It shows up as a feature. So don't approve these and take down the ones that are already up. Thank you.
- Public comment on cameras, ordinances, and ag lands
Amy Baird There's been no public discourse regarding the placement of this surveillance network. I am here to tell you also that the ways this can go wrong far outweigh any benefit to uh. to the police uh gaining information. There are too many risks. This is definitely not just license plate tracking, it is people tracking. The data that is being collected would absolutely require a warrant, and the Supreme Court ruling last Friday proves it. Your job as my county commissioner is to protect me and remove the surveillance network cameras. From any location in Pasco County that they are currently installed. and to not allow any future ones to be placed. This is a whole network of surveillance that is already documented as being abused by law enforcement in particular. There have been officers arrested for stalking people. There is an integration of these surveillance networks, which is our true concern. Data is being stored in the cloud, and the chances of our data being hacked by unintended parties is real.
- Public comment on cameras, ordinances, and ag lands
Anthony Sickenes Good morning commission. Anthony Sicineys, [address removed]. I'm here today actually to talk about, I want I want to ask the board to end Pasco County's participation in the Sheriff's Automated License Plate Reader Network by terminating interlocal agreement CAO25-0003. I obtained the agreement from the clerk and its terms make the path forward very clear. It was approved December tenth, twenty four, as part of the consent agenda. And it passed without separate discussion. I don't raise that to accuse anyone of hiding anything, but a policy with implications with this significance for the privacy of Pasco residents deserves direct public discussion. More importantly, the agreement gives this board a clear off-ramp. So if you refer to the agreement, Section 2.5 requires the sheriff to obtain additional county right-of-way permit use or use permits for additional systems and locations. And it expressly says that the county may, within its sole discretion, withhold approval. So the county can stop expansion of this network right now.
- Public comment on cameras, ordinances, and ag lands
Anthony Sickenes Section 3.2 allows the county to terminate the agreement without cause with 90 days written notice. Section 2.11 says upon termination, the sheriff must remove the systems and restore county roads where they were installed. So this board does not need to prove any misconduct. It doesn't need to establish a breach of contract or wait for a higher court to determine the constitutional limits of this technology. That's not a debate for here. The question this is a question of county property and county policy. There's a meaningful difference between a deputy observing a plate during police work and an automated network that records vehicles at camera locations and makes those observations searchable afterwards. I recognize this technology can be useful to law enforcement. I mean, we can all agree on that, but usefulness alone should not determine how much surveillance infrastructure government builds. I'm asking this board to take three actions. Today, I'm asking you: first, stop approving additional ALPR right-of-way use permits under Section 2.5. of the agreement today. Second, begin the termination
- Public comment on agenda and county business
Cheryl Orchard their stuff on the ground. It's hurting our wildlife, it's hurting our waterways. It's unhealthy. It's disease. That needs to be controlled. The people are pleading. They're working so hard to restore their homes. But you got landlords in there, the L L Cs and different ones, that live in Newport Ritchie, They just collect the rent. And they don't care hoarding hoarding is killing the area. Now they're dragging old, Old R V's in there. No license plates. No titles. Cars without license plates. they brought in a big car hauler, parked it along Olsner, with a big box truck, left it for thirty days, called the police several times. They came out. Finally they made a move it. Guy lived two streets over. What'd he do? He parked it in the street. Then next thing it is, they told him he couldn't have it there. He parked it on the lawn. This is what we're living like in there. It's terrible. It's a ghetto. It needs to be cleaned up. Thank you.
- Public comment on cameras, ordinances, and ag lands
Jeff Cannon Uh so my name is Jeff Cannon. My address is [address removed]. And I just wanted to sp speak regarding the flock camera situation. Um I don't know if the county commissioners realize Uh when they sign the interlocal agreement. Um And the sheriff signed uh continuing agreements with the flock safety There's actually a clause in there that allows flock safety to use Pasco County's data. even after the contract's terminated And the wording basically states that they're allowed to use it for training purposes or to um create better services for those that they provide service to. So the issue there is It basically opens Flock to use Pasco County's data that it's collected. indefinitely, perpetually, worldwide and even after that contract uh uh is terminated. Why would anybody in their right mind enter into a contract that has clauses in it? that lock you into something forever. Now I know the the Sheriff's Office defense to this to this Part of the c the contract is That's so they can share it in her office with other agencies. The issue is that's not what the contract says. So I would encourage the board to terminate the interlocal agreement. And if we move forward we need to explore what these cameras are really doing
- Public comment on Hope Shot and red light cameras
Anthony Wolford the most recent case, uh he ignored the evidence and found me guilty, even going so far as to charge me an additional hundred dollars for exercising my constitutional right of questioning my accuser free of charge. The issue with the cameras are going beyond personal experience. However, the facts are clear, the cameras are operating without valid permits. The expired uh the permits expired was denied er the permit extensions were denied September sixteenth. And despite replying yesterday and reapplying yesterday, Monday, October twenty Twenty five. The operators have Done nothing to update cameras and signage by F DOT standards. In fact, I have photograph evidence that demonstrates the camera's noncompliance. which was provided to me by James Meyer, the F DOT permit signer. This evidence shows the cameras are not operating with the required standard and yet they continue to issue citations to our citizens.
- Public comment on cameras, ordinances, and ag lands
Amy Baird Good morning. Uh Amy Baird. I live at [address removed]. Uh [address removed]. And I am here today to speak about the flop type cameras that are being placed around the county. Just to be clear about the uh what we're talking about here. I have lived in Pasco County for 30 years. I have worked here as a local business owner for more than 20 years, as has my husband. He's been here even longer as a business owner. I have kids and grandkids who live here in Pasco County. I am here to speak about the Axon cameras. I believe that is the brand of surveillance cameras that are being placed around the county. Um And I am absolutely here to tell you that we did not sign up for this. The people of Pasco County have had no say in this happening to us.
- Public comment on cell tower and other matters
Joel Lopez Um the flock. I went out after it and attacked it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. And when it rose up against me, I grabbed it Grabbed it by its mane and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and the this uncircumstined Philistine will be just like them, since he has defiled the armies of the living God. So what I'm saying is is what God is speaking is is some of you may be that person and that God is is wants you to look at how you've gotten here and realize that God is still with you. And so the concerns that you may have uh of the consequences uh of standing up for what is right for the children and for bringing prayer and bringing God back into the government is just to know that that He's with you. And I just want to end it with this, of 1 John 3, 16. And we know What real love is because Jesus gave his life for us, so we ought to give our lives for our brothers and sisters.
- Public comment on cameras, ordinances, and ag lands
Adam Brusselback it, officers could search whoever they felt like without naming a person or giving a reason first. So the rule became that we have to do that. The reason comes first. And it must be about someone specific. A camera network runs that backwards, it collects on everybody, and the reason gets attached later if one ever comes up. The excuse for it is that a private company holds the data instead of the county. That doesn't change what's on it or who searches it. You'll be told that the courts have approved this. Read the rulings rather than what the companies say about them. A Massachusetts case that gets quoted held that with enough cameras in enough places, this becomes a search that needs a warrant. It let the program stand because it was four cameras on two bridges. The vendors quote that outcome and leave out the reasoning. But actually what's actually being bought here is the database.
- Public comment on Hope Shot and red light cameras
Anthony Wolford Uh good morning, County Commissioners. I would like to introduce myself as Good Citizen. I'm here today to discuss the unlawful operation of red light cameras in our community. As a concerned citizen, I've taken the Uh I've taken it upon myself to investigate the permitting and operations of these cameras. I'd like to start by saying I've personally fought through cameras in court and won not once, not twice, but three times. One was because uh The accuser didn't show. There was twenty five of us standing there that day, uh, unable to go through our fourth amendment due process and fourteenth amendment uh to question your accusers. So they were thrown out, all of them. Um In front of the other two judges I legally defended the case and they were thrown out. Um despite this, I turned in all that information recently to the Newport Ritchie Magistrate. Uh in