Police officers in Houston, Texas, have found several damaged Flock license plate reader cameras. “Two Flock cameras were found cut in half and spray-painted,” ABC13 Houston reports. One now has an American flag on it. “This camera has been cut down, completely sprayed over with an American flag on it,” ABC13 Houston reporter Sarah Al-Shaikh said. “And not far away, there is another Flock camera on the ground,” she added. Watch below: JUST IN: Houston officials are furious after a SURGE in Flock cameras being ripped down, vandalized and destroyed — with at least 4 being attacked in a matter of days They put an AMERICAN FLAG over the destroyed camera This is happening in the Carolinas in Georgia as well… pic.twitter.com/yNLTqCejWF — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 9, 2026 ABC13 Houston has more: But who did this and why? The Houston Police Department confirmed to ABC13 that it is investigating this case. Juan Rodriguez’s business, SPAR Houston, is located near where this happened. “I didn’t realize that the cameras were there until you actually pointed that out,” Rodriguez said. Flock cameras are meant to read license plates and alert police if they’re connected to crimes. Rodriguez said he didn’t see who did this, but he’s left wondering why they did. “It would be somebody just protesting,” Rodriguez said. “Their rights are being violated or something like that.” Flock cameras have been used in the City of Houston since 2021, according to the company. “A criminal justice expert tells me this could be a sign of the growing public unease with this type of video surveillance,” Al-Shaikh said in another video. Check it out: #BREAKING: Officials in Houston TX are PANICKING after TWO MORE Flock cameras were chopped down yesterday. This makes 4 Flock cams destroyed in 3 days. Allegedly, the public is sending hundreds of tips saying things like, "the cameras are succumbing to heat exhaustion…" pic.twitter.com/4mw3lvVu6Y — Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) July 9, 2026 In another report, ABC13 Houston said residents are asking commissioners to cancel the Flock Camera contract. “I’m concerned that these cameras increase the risk of mass surveillance, loss of privacy, exposure of personal data, and potential false arrests,” one resident said, according to the outlet. A trend has started in Houston… More flock cameras cut down in Houston amid some privacy concernshttps://t.co/3PLOGl819c — Derrick Broze (@DBrozeLiveFree) July 9, 2026 ABC13 Houston shared further: Resident after resident spoke up. “I’m here to demand that commissioners cancel the Flock safety contract,” another resident said during public comment. Those who spoke up want Harris County commissioners to terminate the county’s contract with Flock, a camera system used by law enforcement and municipalities to track potential crimes and criminals. On Thursday, Harris County commissioners sought to amend their current Flock contract to ensure the product can be used countywide, but residents said it should be canceled because they fear the technology could breed community distrust at a time of uncertainty, referencing the recent shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado by ICE agents on Tuesday. “His family is grieving, and a community already living in fear has been left with even more uncertainty. That is exactly why now is not the time to expand mass surveillance,” another resident spoke up. Experts tell ABC13 that concerns for mass surveillance are growing across the nation, as we reported this week alone, at least four Flock cameras were destroyed in the Houston area. In related news, a U.S. Air Force engineer is facing felony charges for allegedly damaging over a dozen Flock cameras in Virginia. “I Appreciate Everyone’s Right To Privacy” – U.S. Air Force Engineer Faces Felony Charges For Allegedly Damaging Flock Cameras The post Multiple Flock Cameras Found Damaged In Texas City, American Flag Planted appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump has terminated the remaining members of the federal Election Assistance Commission, multiple outlets report. According to The Guardian, the two Democratic appointees on the commission were “notified of their terminations via email from ​the White House presidential personnel office.” “On ‌behalf of President ‌Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position ‌as Commissioner of the Election Assistance Commission is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service,” the email read, according to the outlet. The lone Republican appointee resigned. Votebeat: Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act The firings leave the federal election agency with no commissioners as Trump seeks to reshape voting rules.https://t.co/PJDvpxuGrL — Politics & Poll Tracker (@PollTracker2024) July 9, 2026 More from The Guardian: The Election Assistance Commission serves as a “national clearinghouse of information on election ‌administration”, accredits testing laboratories and certifies voting systems, and maintains the national mail-voter registration form developed by the National ​Voter Registration Act of 1993, according to the commission’s website. The terminations follow Trump and top administration officials’ advocacy to change vote-by-mail requirements and investigations into the 2020 election outcome, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden. “It is ⁠irresponsible and dangerous that this Administration remains dead set on ​causing chaos for ​our election officials across this ​country,” Arizona secretary of state Adrian Fontes said in a ​Thursday statement. “This ‌move undermines the integrity ​of nonpartisan ​election administration.” The 2002 law that established the commission, the Help America Vote Act, states the president can appoint replacements to the commission. It is unclear how Trump will move ahead with the commission. It is unclear if Christy McCormick, the commission’s vice chair who was selected by congressional Republicans, received the same email as the two Democratic appointees, USA TODAY noted. Chairman Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland were the two commissioners selected by congressional Democrats. “These removals leave the agency without leadership and unable to carry out its major responsibilities,” said Michael Waldman, president and CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, according to USA TODAY. BREAKING: The U.S. Election Assistance Commission now has no commissioners after President Trump terminated two members and the agency’s remaining Republican commissioner resigned. The bipartisan agency was formed to help states administer accurate, secure elections.… — Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) July 10, 2026 USA TODAY shared further: A fourth position on the commission became vacant earlier this year when Republican Donald Palmer voluntarily left the agency. To approve any actions, the commission needs agreement from three of its four commissioners. Meanwhile, it could take months to fill the vacancies. The White House and Election Assistance Commission press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. State and local election officials have already complained about a significant drop in assistance ahead of the midterms from some of the other federal agencies tasked with helping them provide safe and secure elections. They have also said they don’t expect federal agencies to reliably share election threats. The post Remaining Members Of Election Assistance Commission Removed By President Trump appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Spencer Pratt says he has the receipts. After weeks of questions surrounding Los Angeles’ slow-moving mayoral count, the former candidate is now making a specific and explosive claim: his own team went into Skid Row, interviewed residents, and gathered video testimony from people who allegedly said they were paid in connection with their votes. That is a very different allegation from a suspicious screenshot or an anonymous rumor. Pratt released the nearly ten-minute video with a blunt message: I didn’t get cheated. You did. pic.twitter.com/ihDoZeEh9J — Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) July 9, 2026 In the video, Pratt said the fight is bigger than his failed bid to reach the November runoff. Pratt said there was “tons of evidence” and added, “I was the one who got it.” Pratt said “well-connected people” warned his team about what was allegedly happening on Skid Row, so he sent people there to investigate. He claimed the resulting videos showed homeless residents admitting they had been paid for their votes. Those are Pratt’s allegations. They have not been proven in court, and the public video does not include the ballot records, identities, or chain-of-custody documentation that would establish how many votes, if any, were illegally cast or counted. But this is no longer just an anonymous claim ricocheting around the internet. A named candidate is saying he commissioned the interviews, knows where the videos came from, and possesses the underlying evidence. The video landed only two days after Pratt met with President Trump in the Oval Office. A separate post circulated Pratt’s central accusations in text alongside the full video: HOLY CRAP! Spencer Pratt just dropped this banger on communist election fraud, declaring OPEN WAR and saying he has EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD "The right way isn't easy — but it ends with COMMIE ANIMALS in HANDCUFFS." "I will restore faith in our elections if it's the last… — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 9, 2026 There is already a confirmed federal election case involving cash payments and voter registrations on Skid Row. The United States Department of Justice announced in May that Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong had been charged with paying people, including homeless residents of Skid Row, to register to vote. DOJ said Armstrong agreed to plead guilty to a felony carrying a maximum sentence of five years. According to the plea agreement summarized by DOJ, Armstrong worked as a petition circulator and was paid for signatures from registered voters. Prosecutors said she regularly offered people on Skid Row between $2 and $3 to sign petitions, then began paying unregistered people to complete voter-registration forms so their signatures would qualify. DOJ said Armstrong sometimes supplied homeless registrants with her own former address when they had no address to list. Because California automatically mails ballots to registered voters, prosecutors said that created the potential for ballots in those people’s names to be delivered to an address where they did not live or receive mail. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office investigated that case. The distinction matters: Armstrong’s federal case concerns paying people to register and sign petitions. It does not prove Pratt’s newer claim that people were paid to vote for Mayor Karen Bass or Councilwoman Nithya Raman. Still, it establishes something election officials cannot simply wave away. Cash payments, questionable registration addresses, and automatic mail ballots have already produced a federal felony case in the exact neighborhood Pratt’s team targeted. Federal authorities had also confirmed broader investigative work before Pratt released his new video. ABC News reported that Essayli said his office had multiple election-fraud investigations underway in coordination with the FBI’s Los Angeles field office. Essayli also said federal officials were working with Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon on a comprehensive audit of California’s voter rolls. He promised prosecutors would follow the evidence wherever it led and pursue violations of federal election law. The announcement did not identify the subjects of those investigations, and it did not say the Los Angeles mayoral result had been proven fraudulent. That makes Pratt’s raw material important: names, unedited footage, dates, locations, and supporting records could turn a public accusation into evidence investigators can test. The official margin must also be confronted honestly. The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk certified the June 2 primary results on June 26. Mayor Karen Bass finished first with 292,593 votes, Nithya Raman placed second with 247,781, and Pratt finished third with 217,977. The county reported processing 2,227,461 ballots across all contests, with 37.81 percent of eligible voters participating. Vote-by-mail ballots accounted for 1,822,019 of those ballots, or 81.8 percent, while 405,442 were cast at vote centers. Election officials said June 26 was the first day counties were permitted to certify under the timetable set by California law. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was then scheduled to formally declare the election concluded on June 30. That left Pratt 29,804 votes short of the second runoff position. A handful of disturbing interviews could justify subpoenas, document checks, and a serious criminal investigation. They do not, by themselves, prove that nearly 30,000 unlawful ballots changed the outcome. Burying the footage would be reckless. Investigators should preserve every original file, identify every witness, compare statements against registration and ballot records where the law permits, and make the findings public. Pratt has now put his own name behind a concrete claim: his team gathered the videos, and he says there is more evidence. If people were paid to surrender ballots or vote for a chosen candidate, then arrests and prosecutions are exactly where this should end. If the evidence shows something else, the public deserves that finding too. Either way, “trust us” is not enough. Election confidence is restored when evidence is examined in daylight, guilty actors are prosecuted, and every lawful vote is protected. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post JUST IN: Spencer Pratt Says He Has EVIDENCE Of Voter Fraud appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

There are stories that make every parent stop cold. This is one of them. Families in Ladera Ranch, California, say six children from their community have been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, an extraordinarily rare cancer of bone and soft tissue. One of those children, 17-year-old Brody Matteson, died in March. No government agency has officially declared a cancer cluster or identified a common cause. But with a cancer this rare, the families’ questions cannot simply be waved away. Cluster of extremely rare cancer cases suddenly strikes kids in wealthy SoCal city https://t.co/UgfldYsj9w pic.twitter.com/T2hugEZYsK — California Post (@californiapost) July 9, 2026 NBC Los Angeles spoke with Brody’s mother, Megan Matteson, about the teenager her family lost. Her account puts a child and a grieving family behind numbers that can otherwise feel cold and distant. She described Brody as an outdoor kid who rode his bike, built jumps, and spent time in the parks around Ladera Ranch. Shortly before his 15th birthday, back pain led to a devastating diagnosis. The tumor was on the L4 vertebra of his spine, in a location his mother said could not be treated with surgery. After Brody died, Matteson said she began hearing from other local families. The reports did not arrive through an official public notice; parents found one another as they confronted the same terrifying diagnosis. Five other children in the community had reportedly been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma. That brought the family-reported total to six. Matteson said three families contacted her quickly after Brody’s diagnosis. Their support helped, but hearing the same devastating words attached to other children in a community of roughly 20,000 to 30,000 people was frightening. NBC’s report did not identify all six children or independently publish their medical records. The total comes from Matteson’s account of the families who came forward. NBC also reported that Orange County health officials conducted an initial review of cancer data and did not find a particular pattern. Because concerns have continued, officials said they plan to review the data again in the coming weeks. That distinction matters. The concern is real, but the existence of an official cancer cluster has not yet been established. Families in Ladera Ranch say they want answers as to why several children in their one community have all been diagnosed with the same rare cancer. https://t.co/kTNdZenGkg — NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) July 9, 2026 The numbers explain why the reports have shaken this community so deeply. The American Cancer Society says Ewing sarcoma is a rare tumor that develops in tissue that normally forms bone and soft tissue. It accounts for only about 1% of childhood cancers. Roughly 200 children and teenagers are diagnosed across the entire United States each year. Most Ewing tumors develop in teenagers, though the disease can also strike younger children and adults. Younger patients are more likely to develop tumors that begin in bone, while adults are more likely to have tumors outside the bones. The cancer is also diagnosed more often in males than females. The American Cancer Society notes significant differences in incidence among racial groups, another factor investigators must consider when comparing a local population with national rates. Those details are why a raw count cannot settle the question by itself. Public-health officials have to compare similar populations and measure the local reports against an appropriate expected rate. The National Cancer Institute puts the incidence rate at approximately three cases per one million Americans younger than 20, based on federal registry data from 2016 through 2020. The rate rises with age during childhood, reaching 4.3 cases per million among children ages 10 to 14 and 4.5 per million among teens ages 15 to 19. NCI says the overall pediatric incidence has remained essentially unchanged from the rate reported between 1973 and 2004. That makes Ewing sarcoma persistently rare, not a disease whose national frequency has recently surged. Those national statistics do not prove that six reported cases in Ladera Ranch form a cluster. They do show why parents are stunned to hear the same diagnosis repeated in one relatively small community. The families are also asking for more information about pesticides used in shared outdoor spaces. They have not claimed to know what caused the illnesses. In fact, an attorney working with the families told NBC that correlation is not causation and that they cannot say pesticides are responsible. That caution is essential. There is currently no established evidence tying a specific landscaping product or community practice to these reported cases. Still, asking what is being applied around parks, sidewalks, and other common areas is a reasonable question when parents are desperate for answers. Ladera Ranch’s official pest-management page says its landscaping contractor uses fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides in common areas. It says synthetic materials are sometimes used when practical alternatives are unavailable and that the products are approved for their intended use by the EPA and California Department of Pesticide Regulation. The HOA says those materials are used to control invasive weeds, turf weeds, tree borers, and grubs that can damage the community’s landscaping. Its page also says the contractor considers non-synthetic options but sometimes concludes that synthetic products are required to maintain common areas. That is the association’s public explanation. The families’ request goes further: they want enough information about which products were used, where they were applied, and in what amounts to let investigators evaluate whether any shared exposure deserves scrutiny. That policy is useful context. It is not proof of a cancer connection. The right next step is not internet speculation. It is a transparent review of verified diagnoses, the affected population, the timeline, and any exposures the children may have shared. The CDC defines a cancer cluster as a greater-than-expected number of the same or etiologically related cancers among a defined group of people, in a defined place, over a defined period. That definition requires more than counting cases. Investigators must establish the population at risk, the geographic boundary, the time window, and the expected incidence for a comparable group. The CDC also warns that an unusual pattern can result from chance, genetics, behavior, social factors, occupational exposure, environmental exposure, or a combination of influences. Geography and time matter enormously. The agency notes that changing the boundaries of the area being studied can accidentally create or obscure an apparent cluster, while the chosen time period changes both the number of observed cases and the expected rate. Cancer investigations are also complicated by latency, population movement, and the fact that multiple factors can interact in ways researchers do not fully understand. That is why a careful investigation can neither begin with a predetermined culprit nor end with a shrug. It has to test the reported pattern against real data and follow the evidence from there. In other words, public-health officials have serious work to do before anyone can responsibly announce either a cluster or a cause. @Dr_R_Kurzrock thoughts on this? What’s the pattern for rare disease such as sarcoma? After her son died, Megan Matteson said she began hearing from other families in Ladera Ranch — a city of about 20,000 to 30,000 people — where she says five other children have been diagnosed… — Sarcoma Southern California (@sarcsouthernca) July 9, 2026 Brody’s parents are not asking the public to pretend an answer already exists. They are asking officials to do the work required to find out whether one does. Six children in one community facing one of the rarest pediatric cancers is more than enough reason for sunlight, records, and a serious second review. No panic. No premature verdict. But no brush-off, either. These families deserve clarity, and every parent in Ladera Ranch deserves to know that the questions are being pursued wherever the evidence leads. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. 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A U.S. Air Force engineer based in Virginia faces 13 felony counts of destruction of property, six counts of petit larceny, and six counts of possession of burglary tools for allegedly damaging 13 Flock cameras in the Suffolk area between April and October 2025. Jeffrey Sovern, 41, was arrested by Suffolk Police in October. Sovern, who has pleaded not guilty, allegedly called Flock camera license plate reader systems “unconstitutional and a violation of his and others’ Fourth Amendment rights.” Air Force Engineer Accused of Cutting Down 13 Police Cameras Says They're Unconstitutional Jeffrey Sovern faces 25 charges after Virginia Police say he destroyed 13 Flock license plate cameras. Supporters are paying his legal bills.https://t.co/NTqpQ1r4DN — Derrick Broze (@DBrozeLiveFree) July 9, 2026 Military.com explained further: A local vandalism case would normally stay local. This one has become a national boiling point in the ever-burgeoning fight over automated license plate readers. Privacy advocates across the country have donated more than $15,000 to Sovern’s legal defense, and his case is unfolding in Hampton Roads—a region that holds one of the largest concentrations of military personnel in the country, as well as more than 600 such cameras. At the late June preliminary hearing, Fifth Judicial District Court Judge Nicole Belote certified all charges to the circuit court, WAVY reported, sending the case toward a possible grand jury indictment and trial. Sovern also faces separate petit larceny charges in Chesapeake, according to WAVY, and was free on bond as of December. Flock Safety builds automated license plate readers, solar-powered cameras that photograph every plate that passes and store the images in a searchable database for 30 days, according to Flock Safety’s evidence policy. The company’s software can also log a vehicle’s make and color, along with identifying features such as bumper stickers. Its network now operates in more than 6,000 communities nationwide. Hampton Roads has embraced the technology at scale. More than 600 Flock cameras operate across the region, including 70 in Suffolk, according to an exhibit filed in a federal lawsuit and reported by WAVY. Police departments credit the readers with helping to solve crimes and deter offenders. Critics argue the cameras amount to a warrantless tracking network that logs the daily movements of ordinary drivers. That argument has already reached a courtroom in neighboring Norfolk, where a federal judge ruled in January that the city’s network of 176 Flock cameras did not violate the Fourth Amendment, finding the system does not track the whole of a person’s movements. The two residents who sued, backed by the Institute for Justice, are appealing. “I appreciate everyone’s right to privacy, enshrined in the fourth amendment. With the local news outlets finding my legal issues and creating a story that is starting to grow, there has been community support for me that I humbly welcome,” a GoFundMe page stated. “I have been charged with allegedly destroying multiple ‘flock’ cameras around the Suffolk, VA area. My support system and I have seen the social media comments of support, and we greatly appreciate the sentiments, as this process has been negative on our mental health to say the least. Seeing multiple comments about a gofundme have encouraged me to create this. This fund is run by myself (Jeff) and with guidance and support from my family, close friends, and lawyer,” it continued. “I have hired a lawyer and incurred some minor costs so far in the process. Those expenses combined are what I have set the goal at for now. There will increased costs as this process continues, but I will not move the bar until increased costs are solidified. Additional legal costs have been added as of the 6 July update. Anything over the goal at this point is to provide as many resources as we can put to bear for court, so we appreciate the continued support! Every dollar will be applied to my legal expenses to defend my rights and vicariously privacy,” it added. Watch below: Suffolk Man Accused of Damaging Flock Cameras said They're 'Unconstitutional'Jeffrey Sovern, a 41-year-old U.S. Air Force engineer and mechanic, told investigators that the Flock Safety cameras he is accused of destroying are “unconstitutional and a violation of his and… pic.twitter.com/nHCol6zP0J — American Crime Stories (@AmericanCrime01) June 28, 2026 Futurism has more: Sovern kicked off the campaign late in December of 2025, where he encouraged his supporters to “reach out to the local governments and demand that these systems are taken down.” The Virginia resident initially set his funding goal to $8,500. As news of his case has spread across the web, the amount of support has far outpaced those already-hopeful aspirations: at the time of writing, Sovern’s legal fund currently stands at $15,440 from over 400 donors. “Thank you to those that had the time to show support this week!” Sovern wrote in a late-June update following a preliminary hearing in the Fifth Judicial District Court. “We have seen a huge uptick in awareness of the system and this case. Continue to do what you can to preserve privacy and roll back the pervasive data infrastructure taking the joie-de-vivre away from enjoying life.” The post “I Appreciate Everyone’s Right To Privacy” – U.S. Air Force Engineer Faces Felony Charges For Allegedly Damaging Flock Cameras appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.