The city told the council
“To date state and federal courts have determined it is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment.”Chief's agenda document, page 8
The record shows
The biggest Flock case in the country is not over. Two Norfolk, Virginia residents sued over 176 Flock cameras. In February 2025 the court said their claim of dragnet surveillance was plausible enough to go forward. In January 2026 the judge ruled for the city. They appealed. The appeal is pending right now.
Read the judge's reason. He said 176 cameras did not capture "the whole" of a person's movements. Norfolk has about 240,000 people. Casa Grande is planning about 240 devices for about 60,000 people. That is roughly four times the cameras per person, plus 100 video cameras that never stop recording, plus drones.
The Supreme Court has already said that tracking a car with a GPS device for 28 days is a search, and that pulling months of phone location history is a search. Nobody has ruled on a network this dense. "Not yet ruled unconstitutional" is not "constitutional."
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Norfolk cameras a judge called too few to track "the whole" of a life
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