The Goose Creek City Council held its regular meeting on September 8, 2026, at 6:00 PM. The meeting included public comments, presentations, multiple annexation and zoning ordinance readings, resolutions, and administrative approvals. All motions were passed unanimously. Key highlights include a public comment on Flock safety cameras, the awarding of the MASC Public Service Award for the Therapeutic Recreation Division, and the advancement of a BMX facility project.
Good evening, everyone. Good evening and welcome. I very much appreciate everyone here. We have a lovely looking crowd tonight. Today is uh Tuesday, September 8th. This is our regularly scheduled council meeting. Uh very thankful for your attendance. Uh Pastor Beckwith with Crowfield Baptist Church is going to lead us in prayer. We're going to follow that with a Pledge of Allegiance. Let's pray together. Father, we thank you for this community that you have given to us and for the blessing of living in it together. And Lord, we pray that as we approach this meeting, uh, we would do it as neighbors, uh neighbors uh called to love one another and care for one another and uh consider the needs of one another. And also tonight, Father, as we look upon another anniversary of 9-11, uh, we give you thanks for the first responders in our community uh that serve us so well, and Lord, we pray a special blessing on them this evening, and pray that you would grant in this meeting wisdom and humility uh to those who will speak and lead. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. I project the leadership of the United States and the Republic for which the same, nation, and the liberty and justice. Pastor, thank you. I appreciate you sharing those words with us tonight, and I appreciate you being here. Um right now we only have or not right now, tonight we only have one person signed up to speak, and that is Cody Coxwell. Mr. Coxwell, if you'd like to come up to the podium. You got three minutes, and I appreciate it. Okay, perfect. Should be enough copies for everybody. Uh good evening, council members. My name is Cody Coxwell. I live at 116 Williams Court uh in here in Goose Creek. Here tonight to talk about flock safety cameras, the automated license plate readers installed on our roads. About 20 cameras in Goose Creek scan every license plate that passes, uh passes them. 99% of the plates they scan belong to people who aren't suspected of anything. The data goes to SLED, which keeps it for three years. SLUD's database has logged 42 million plate reads. That's a detailed record of where South Carolinians drive, when they drive, and how often. Flock CEO was asked on camera in July of 25 whether his company had any federal contracts. He said no. Three weeks later, investigators forced him to admit Flock had secretly given border patrol an account to access local police cameras across the country without telling any of those agencies. SC has no law that would even make that illegal. This isn't a conspiracy, it's happening in our state. Greenville police utilizing flock cameras wrongly targeted a woman and her daughters, identifying their vehicle as stolen, resulting in a 1.9 million dollar lawsuit. The Calton County Sheriff's Office just next door recently conducted an audit where they found 2700 instances of unauthorized use of the system. One officer has been fired. Security research researchers found flock cameras can be physically hacked in under 30 seconds. They run an operating system. Google stopped updating in 2021. They uh they have 51 security flaws that have been found in Flock's devices with 22 assigned CVEs now in the national vulnerability database. These cameras are not secure. Most Americans pushing back against this mass surveillance argue that it violates the fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and I agree. However, our state constitution is even clearer.