Seems like they most certainly did. They put the cameras on private property so they would be out of reach of public disclosure: The cameras should be removed.

Times Union@timesunion.com · yesterday

The Columbia County sheriff said her predecessor did not circumvent local elected officials when the office purchased 10 cameras in 2024.

I was disappointed in most of the discussion (WAMC RT) on this topic. Every panelist voiced concerns about online radicalization and praise for police (safer sorry tautology) without even wondering if police are the ones online coaching mentally ill people into incriminating themselves.

Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · 2d ago

Corrected post: A relative of the 35-year-old Albany woman charged with plotting to attack the Capitol after being reeled in by an FBI sting operation said she has a history of mental health issues.

This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state

Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state

“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.

miamiherald.com

Hard to read but allows for hope: time.com/article/2026...

ICE Is Asking Gate Agents To Help Arrest Passengers. Some Are Pushing Back

An airline manager warned a passenger that ICE agents were waiting at her gate, helping her avoid a possible arrest.

time.com

Disappointing news for Columbia County; Sheriff’s dept bought Flock cameras without permission and located them on private property to avoid telling people.

DeFlock

Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

deflock.org

🚨BREAKING: In a letter sent Wednesday to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said they have “grave concern” over Shasta Registrar of Voters plan to hire Peters to replace his current assistant in September. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

California senators call for ‘maximum oversight’ over conspiracist Tina Peters’ new election job

In a letter sent to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff said they have “grave concern” over Shasta Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis’ plan to hire Peters.

democracydocket.com

This post makes me wonder if humor or insight will ever return to NPR. I did not expect Trump to ruin those folks, too.

Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · last wk.

Also worth nothing that Mr Bouie is going absolutely scorched earth on somebody who until quite recently was his colleague at the NYTimes. Makes you wonder about social dynamics at past company picnics.

none of the people calling ossoff sexist think women are biologically capable of flying planes

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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The commutation — I had assumed was in good faith — seemed plausible to me. But the GOP has no good left in them at all. I should never assume. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

Colorado Was Targeted as Trump Fumed Over Election Denier, Email Shows (Gift Article)

The state has accused the government in a lawsuit of retaliating after the conviction of Tina Peters, a Trump supporter. An administration official convened a group to discuss “immediate actions.”

nytimes.com

“Friendly exclamation points.” … and other useless tools.

Contrary to the talking points you are fed, shifting money from police to social services is enormously popular across all components of the income distribution:

Thats why the collapse of our public health system is so intrinsically linked to the public not understanding abolition in criminal justice reform spaces. They dont understand PREVENTION. They dont understand population health as opposed to the uplifting of the individual.

Senate Democrats still think that Senate Republicans who voted to install Trump’s corruption crony as the head of our Department of Justice are still their good friends and colleagues.

Become and remain eternally suspicious of ANY rag trying to push this story.

in July, bystander video of another police killing in broad daylight went viral. 6 years since 2020's movement to defund and abolish police, killings have risen—now including Corey Ruiz. organizers place his killing in a long backlash to it, which began immediately: police budgets went up by 2022

Killing of Corey Ruiz revives calls to shift power from police to communities

Community organizers demand systemic changes after police killed a 38-year-old Black man in Wisconsin

theguardian.com

Republicans wouldn’t let the CDC track and study gun violence in the U.S. Yet, they are now mandating the CDC track abortions.

J.P.@johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2w ago

The CDC is doing abortion surveillance now. This is straight out of Project 2025.

A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization

North Carolina Teen Arrested for Using Abortion Pills As “Deadly Weapon”

The 18-year-old faces criminal charges for trying to self-manage an abortion

jessica.substack.com

Wherein the nation’s adherence to healthcare swirls the drain: newrepublic.com/post/214078/...

Trump’s New CDC Director Promised Dystopian New Abortion Policy

Dr. Erica Schwartz claimed “abortion surveillance” was key to the CDC’s mission.

newrepublic.com

in case anybody needed a primer in how to write a press release that clearly states its position

Legendgerry@gerald-t-mc-evoy.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oh wow. FIFA is done. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

A refusal to accept "I don't want to talk to you" from other people as a valid stance that should be respected remains undefeated as the most reliable red flag a guy online can wave

max largeman 😇@dad.franklinstower.online · 4w ago

rapist mentality

Just rewatch High Fidelity for the first time since it appeared in the theater in 1995. It holds up too well, sadly.

I can't stress this enough. This was their POLICY and PLAN. I've been saying it for months. I know that you all know this. I hope that the people who are losing their benefits understand too. Brooke Rollins et al have been saying that this is their desire and intention for months.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

Page One. @nytimes.com

What stage of capitalism is this?

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · last mo.

A few weeks ago I shared my view that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket should be made illegal. Today it was announced that Kalshi is now taking bets on FDA drug approvals and clinical trial outcomes. These markets are metastasizing and nothing good can come of it.

Make immigration and naturalization a SERVICE again.

It’s not just ICE, it’s policing in general. They follow no rules or statutes they don’t create and they investigate themselves with predictable outcomes. Crime is down but jail cells are full. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

As ICE cooperation ban nears, some New York law enforcement agencies prepare to defy it

The state has given local law enforcement agencies until Aug. 25 to end ICE partnerships. Not everyone plans to.

yahoo.com

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Go Fund Me for the sister who was surrounded by white supremacists on the Metro in that viral photo. If you shared the photo, consider actually making a material donation.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · last mo.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-be...

Prisoners are allowed to file complaints about mistreatment — but doing so often comes with retaliation. That's according to an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project.

A guard punched him on camera. It was still nearly impossible for him to sue

Prisoners are allowed to file complaints about mistreatment — but doing so often comes with retaliation. That's according to an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project.

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Now that ICE has killed in multiple states, I still dont see why people dont see immigration as a part of the anti-mass incarceration movement. I feel it has to do with the connotation that the word “criminal” holds & that immigration LEGALLY is a civil issue but in my mind, a cage is a cage.