Among the recipients of the money: Cicero Town President Larry Dominick and Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg, both of whose government agencies use the technology from the Atlanta company.

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      I’m pretty sure the article is written by AI…

      The first contribution to the Cicero Voters Alliance (The Larry Dominick Team) was for $1,000, made in 2021, according to Illinois State Board of Elections records.

      It’s started (in that specific place) five years ago.

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    Usually when researching my ballot I have a hard time getting enough info on the local politicians to feel like I’m making an informed decision. My sincere thanks to Flock for making it so much easier to identify who not to vote for.

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    Track those taking the payoffs. We don’t need them representing themselves, we need them to represent their constituents. Once you know who they are, vote them out. Eventually those seeking to enter politics will have a more universally collective mindset rather then the “what’s in it for me” that is the current norm.

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      flock does feed the data to palantir quite a bit, thiel is one of flocks investors. not surprising the sam altman-esque ceo going on.

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    Well that’s not exactly helping their evil government surveillance company look at all. Sounds like they’re just leaning into it.

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    Taxpayers pay for Flock cameras to be put up because our gov agencies are terrible. Flock then takes a portion of this money to bribe the gov to give them more money.

    Sounds legit and totally normal. This is how the entire military industrial complex works. Nothing to see here.

    /s