If your neighborhood has Flock Safety cameras mounted at intersections in your city, the FBI may soon be watching every vehicle that passes through, in near real time, without a warrant.

It started with a letter that flew under the radar: A small bedroom community taking on a $7.5B national company with strong ties to law enforcement, and thanks to determined residents, bagging the spy camera and chasing it out of town.   A true David and Goliath story.

Some items of interest from the Shorewood council meeting:   – Flock ALPR camera audit discussion   – Mill Street water main issues   – Excelsior Fire District report

At the April 27 Shorewood council meeting, City Administrator Marc Nevinski stated that due to a code change, the city no longer assesses properties for water improvements. SCA carefully monitors activities at the city and his statement surprised even us.   After some research, this is what we fou...

It took two years, resident Barry Brown regularly speaking at council meetings, seven SCA articles and widespread pressure on the city council by residents, to rein in the burgeoning engineering fees charged by Bolton & Menk.   Now, the council has hammered out a compromise we can live with.

Some items of interest from the Shorewood council meeting:   - Mill Street water main project cancelled   - Flock ALPR camera contract ending   - Police Coordinating Committee controversy

In Shorewood, the retreat of legacy media like the Sun Sailor and other print publications directly enabled the creation of a "news desert"—a dangerous reality that the Shorewood Citizen Advocates (SCA) has stepped in to combat.

While the Shorewood Community & Event Center (SCEC) has struggled to change its identity from “just for seniors”, a youth program has quietly and successfully used the center as its home base for over a decade.   Who knew?

Since finding out the impact of Flock Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) in our cities, SCA has dug into a black hole of surveillance information.   Flock sells itself as a friend of law enforcement and a safety advocate. It often contradicts its own guidelines. Intentional or not, those contradictions...

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, Henry Ford's Model T was still seven years away. The Wright Brothers hadn't flown. Women couldn't yet vote. World War I was over a decade in the future.   And a young eastern white pine was taking root at the corner of Birch Bluff and Eureka North.