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Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta's 'Cop City' activists
Cameras are hidden in unmarked boxes on utility poles in a move residents and advocates call ‘creepy’ and ‘corrosive’
It has also included efforts to mount a referendum on the training center that gathered the signatures of more than 100,000 voters, historic levels of public participation in city council meetings, lawsuits, numerous protests, and national environmental and civil rights groups. The supreme court declined to take up the issue in 2023, leaving “people across the country … vulnerable to law enforcement’s claim of unfettered authority to surveil any of us at our homes, for as long as they wish, with no judicial oversight”, said Wessler at the time. Meanwhile, Mallory, a volunteer who helps run the cultural center and declined to offer her full name due to safety concerns, said she “feels a sense of fear when I’m going to open the community library, or clean up after a show … There’s this dynamic – the camera is hidden, but you know it’s there.”
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