{"id":380696,"date":"2026-06-30T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/380696\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:30:08","slug":"southern-california-residents-say-hoa-made-them-take-down-american-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/380696\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California residents say HOA made them take down American flags"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Residents in a neighborhood in Southern California <\/a>said that their homeowners association has threatened to fine them if they don\u2019t take down the American flags displayed outside their homes.<\/p>\n

Amy and Chris Cooke and their neighbor Terri Collins live in San Marcos, which is located in San Diego County.<\/p>\n

They said that they could potentially face a $100 fine if they keep the flags displayed outside their homes, according to the Daily Wire.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not taking my flag down,\u201d Collins said. \u201cThey can fine me, $100, $200, $1,000, I\u2019m not paying it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collins said that the neighborhood is very patriotic because it is located close to the former Miramar Navy Air Station.<\/p>\n

She said that \u201call the Top Gun pilots lived here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The neighbors said that ever since President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the HOA has enforced the rule about flags.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the members allow use of a common property by an owner to express what is essentially a political or affiliative view in a flag, other owners will want to do the same and the common area will degrade,\u201d a letter from the HOA reads.<\/p>\n

Homeowners were told that flags displayed in \u201cexclusive use\u201d areas like backyards.<\/p>\n

An HOA attorney told the Daily Wire HOAs \u201ccount on the fact that homeowners don\u2019t know better and might be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI would tell these people to stand firm and under no circumstances should they remove that flag,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Residents in a neighborhood in Southern California said that their homeowners association has threatened to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-380696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}