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No Flock Yucca Valley: A Camera on the 62 Wrote This About You

offthe62.org ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 88.0
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A volunteer-run campaign investigates Yucca Valley's automated license-plate cameras and explains how residents can challenge the program.

Why it surfaced

The site traces 20 cameras, a 365-day retention period, and a $158,000 two-year contract through town agreements and meeting records. It turns that research into practical civic actions, including public-records requests, meeting scripts, and a demand for the privacy policy the council promised but apparently never returned.

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August 9’s newborn domains include a wedding pressed into a playable record, an AI journal built across 62 memoryless sessions, 127,861 volunteer-verified license-plate-reader reports, and an eight-foot beach-wedding cross engineered for Gulf Coast wind.

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