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Henry Dillon

Secretary of the West Virginia Freedom Caucus and a West Virginia state legislator.

The Fourth Amendment was written specifically to stop the government from engaging in generalized surveillance and warrantless searches. Flock cameras don't just identify criminals — they create a database documenting where law-abiding citizens worship, seek medical care, conduct business, and travel. That is fundamentally incompatible with a free society.

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Henry Dillon, statement as West Virginia Freedom Caucus Secretary, quoted in Robert McGreevy, “Flock surveillance spreads across the South as red-state lawmakers seek to axe '1984'-style tracking tools,” Fox News, July 28, 2026. The article concerns lawmakers' effort to ban AI-powered Flock surveillance cameras statewide.

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AI Verified Quote identifies government generalized surveillance and Flock-camera tracking of law-abiding citizens as incompatible with a free society; it covers the cited AI surveillance policy and expresses opposition. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Quote’s condemnation of government generalized surveillance and Flock tracking establishes opposition to such surveillance; recorded answer “for” matches the ban statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Verified verbatim in Fox News, July 28, 2026, lines 352–355: Henry Dillon is explicitly attributed to all stored wording. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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The Fourth Amendment was written specifically to stop the government from engaging in generalized surveillance and warrantless searches. Flock cameras don't just identify criminals — they create a database documenting where law-abiding citizens worsh...

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