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Flock, maker of controversial license plate readers, starts to give campaign cash to local politicians (chicago.suntimes.com)
submitted 10 hours ago by Nobody_Special@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] The_greatest_ahole9@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Yeah it’s really easy to tell who to not vote for. You just see if they’ve ever gotten money from AIPAC or a major corporation and then you know.