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I'm here today because, I asked for my own license plate records and what Flock had captured for the last 30 days. It did take me a bit to get these records back. I had actually requested them well over a month ago, but the policies have changed with the Sheriff's Department, so they finally got it back to me. I'm going to share with you guys what I learned on these records. It should worry every single person in this room. I barely leave my house. I maybe leave my house two or three times a week. I'm a stay-at-home mom. I don't like to load up all three kids and go anywhere. So I only leave the house when I need to. But in just 30 days, cameras on the roads, 154 separate times, okay? On one single afternoon, when I just drove to a family birthday party, the system logged my plate 23 times, okay? I got back 119 actual photos of my car. Now I do want to thank Sheriff Hardwick and the department, they have listened to us a bit and made adjustments with the system. It is not enough, though. Just days ago, on October 1st, as Kaylee was talking about, a federal judge ruled that the tracking of a driver's history for a month without a warrant is unconstitutional. The judge threw out the evidence and called the technology indiscriminate mass surveillance. If federal court says this tracking is wrong, why are we still doing it to our own citizens? But the worst, though, the technology makes a lot of mistakes. 11 cars were not mine, but captured my license plate as those cars, okay? 11, 7.1% error rate. If you go across all the citizens in St. Johns County, that's a much higher error rate. So that's a huge issue, but puts regular people at risk for being stopped for no reason. We do not control our own data. While the sheriff's office deletes the records after 30 days, the private company that owns the cameras, Flock Safety, keeps the rights to that tracking information forever. When a private company is building a permanent database of our daily lives on public roads, where do we draw the line? Thank you. Thank you so much. And Deborah, I do have a question for you. When you mentioned that error rate, can you clarify, did it show a picture of your license plate on it? Like explain how it was on a different vehicle. So the log that I was given, the 154 scans, it was in, like, just a typed-up log, right? That's how many times my license plate was captured. And then it will give you identifying factors. I have, for safety reasons, I have a white vehicle, okay? It captured a green Buick with my license plate, a Hummer with my license plate, a Toyota car with my license plate. I would be feel free to send that information to you guys personally, but obviously I'm not going to display that for public record. But, yeah, it was a real issue. 11 cars. Thank you so much for sharing that. Thank you. Next.