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Activist group DeFlock St. Pete is asking city council to end its contract with Flock Safety over surveillance and 4th Amendment concerns<\/p>\n
Since 2021 dozens of cameras have been installed without discussion from the public. It has been cited by the ACLU that police can use the camera for warrantless tracking<\/a> to determine your daily whereabouts.<\/p>\n The federal program<\/a> encourages schools to use locally-sourced meat and produce in school lunches. The initiative does not increase the budget for the updates, leading federal budget to look cuts and funding in other categories.<\/p>\n Residents were protesting Project Grace, an $80-million dollar sports complex in Lakewood Ranch. The sports complex would lead the residential are to become a high traffic spot raising concerns for children\u2019s saftey in the urban area. There is an alloted 22 acres for Lakewood Ranch that is also raising environmental concerns.<\/p>\n The Scoop, produced by Kayleigh Fuller<\/p>\n WMNF anchors Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Hannah Lau Gleciano, Megan Fair. Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 Information from the News Service of Florida, the Associated Press, and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Activist group DeFlock St. Pete is asking city council to end its contract with Flock Safety over surveillance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[113,1563,153547,46978,40287,16665,7088,30415,121018,199,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-382775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-budget","tag-flock-cameras","tag-kratom","tag-local-government","tag-manatee-county","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-rfk-jr","tag-st-petersburg","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382775","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=382775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane
WMNF reporters Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Daria Mironova, Megan Fair, Luiza Medeiros de Campos, Hannah Lau Gleciano, Joeniyah Carter, Jaelin Diehl.
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