\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what you look like, who you vote for or how you pray,\u201d Fishback said to a crowd of young supporters. \u201cYou will become prey. You will become sheep. You will become victims of the flock surveillance system. It\u2019s called flock for a reason because they treat us like animals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fishback and his campaign handed out black paper signs for supporters to hold during his rally that said \u201cBlock Flock Now.\u201d He also displayed a map that identifies multiple locations flock cameras can be found at around Florida. <\/p>\n
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James Fishback Next to DeFLock.org Map (Isaac Abdelmessih) <\/p>\n
According to the American Civil Liberties Union<\/a>, flock cameras are primarily manufactured by Flock Safety and are advanced motion-activated license plate readers used by law enforcement and private communities.<\/p>\n Police and community organizations use the cameras to recover stolen vehicles, locate missing persons, and identify getaway cars according to the ACLU. <\/p>\n Some Statistics Provided by the ACLU Regarding Flock Cameras:<\/p>\n 80,000 \u2013 100,000 Flock cameras are currently installed in both urban and rural areas on highways, in neighborhoods, and outside your local hardware store.< 1% of cars\u00a0scanned by ALPRs\u00a0are connected to any crime or wrongdoing.1-in-10 license plates scanned by Flock license plate readers\u00a0misread the state.<\/p>\n The ACLU also reported that flock cameras now operate as a massive, connected network where agencies can optionally share their captured data with thousands of other departments nationwide. The organization argues the devices enable mass, warrantless surveillance of everyday citizens, and that the data can be misused or accessed by federal immigration agencies (such as ICE) to track people without probable cause.<\/p>\n READ: ACLU – Fight Creepy ALPR Cameras<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re meant to be a free nation and flock cameras put that at risk,\u201d said David Watts, a 19-year-old North Florida native who supports Fishback and attended Tuesday\u2019s rally. \u201cI think flock cameras are a national security threat.\u201d<\/p>\n Watts is part of Generation Z, the age group largely supporting Fishback according to the Federal News Network<\/a>. The network claims that Fishback \u201cdominates\u201d Gen Z polling, particularly with disaffected and antagonistic factions within the generation of individuals ages 14-29.<\/p>\n Watts thinks that Fishback\u2019s message resonates with younger voters despite some inflammatory comments he\u2019s made about his opponents because he\u2019s willing to speak his mind. <\/p>\n \u201cWhen you see James Fishback, and then you meet him, [you realize] this guy is real he\u2019s like a real human being and not a robot,\u201d Watts said. \u201cSo many of these top politicians are bought out. James Fishback doesn\u2019t do that, he only appeases to the voters and I think that\u2019s why so many people like him.\u201d<\/p>\n READ: James Fishback Dominates Gen Z Poling: Is it Enough to Win Florida Governor Race?<\/a><\/p>\n Fishback was criticized by Florida Attorney General, James Uthmeier, for comments he made against one of his Republican opponents, Congressman Byron Donalds according to Florida Politics<\/a>. <\/p>\n Fishback called Donalds a \u201cslave\u201d as a line of attack in the Governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n \u201cI think somebody that\u2019s going to call a Black candidate a slave clearly has some intentionality there. I think it\u2019s gross,\u201d Uthmeier said in a June press conference. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any room for that in Republican politics. It\u2019s certainly not my brand of politics.\u201d<\/p>\n Fishback doubled down when challenged on the word \u201cslave,\u201d calling Donalds a \u201ctether\u201d with \u201cno right to be complaining about me calling him a slave when he has absolutely no direct descendant of slavery in his family,\u201d according to Florida Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n READ: James Uthmeier ascribes \u2018intentionality\u2019 to \u2018gross\u2019 James Fishback \u2018slave\u2019 slur against Byron Donalds<\/a><\/p>\n Fishback currently sits second trailing Donalds by 28 points in a poll taken on July 15 by FiftyPlusOne<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThey [American Founding Fathers] did not declare independence to lose our privacy and liberty to this [pointing to the DeFlock.org map of Florida],\u201d said Fishback. \u201cWe will not be spied on, we will not be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures, and that is exactly what the flock surveillance state has become.\u201d<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. – James Fishback, a Republican candidate for Florida governor, held a rally that attracted dozens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6029,6030,445,41142,147,63939,2275,36236,46978,28,3291,6281,28912,139,141,140,1184,140817,5597],"class_list":["post-343282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-580am","tag-am580","tag-byron-donalds","tag-cameras","tag-central-florida","tag-constitutional-rights","tag-downtown-orlando","tag-fishback","tag-flock-cameras","tag-florida","tag-florida-governor","tag-governor","tag-james-fishback","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-security","tag-us-court","tag-wdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/M64TWWI6W5GOZEA5WJIHPEI4PY.png\")
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