the Terror of Coral Hill

We were reprimanded by Mayor Goodrich for laughing when Councilor Vogelzang said if you’re not doing anything wrong, you shouldn’t worry about being surveilled.

Laughing at bigotry clothed in ignorance is the correct response.

How about a reprimand for signing this contract in the first place?

weird night to skip work

Coralville City Council just voted 3-1 (one guy didn't show up to the meeting) to cancel our contract with Flock.

Community engagement is a necessary component of democracy.

coralvilleflock.org for more info

We want more transparency in our city proceedings so that a larger amount of the people actually affected by the decisions being made are aware of them and have the opportunity to respond.

The items on today’s work session include discussion about the TIF analysis report and hotel projections by Tim Oswald, the community development department report by Dave Johnson, the fiscal year 2027 budget discussion, and the rec center construction manager process.

You are welcome to come and go from the meeting as you like but many of us stay through the meeting and for the work session after the meeting especially because the city refuses to record work sessions even though they are also public meetings.

The discussion (and, hopefully, the vote) on whether or not to cancel the contract with Flock is the first item on the agenda directly after Community Comment.

If you’re not able to attend, the meeting will be streamed on coralville.org/coralvision

Comments are only allowed by people in the room.

If at all possible, please also attend the Coralville city council meeting tonight (Tuesday, February 24, 2026) at 6:30 pm at Coralville City Hall.

Mayor Goodrich allows 15 minutes for Community Comment close to the beginning of each meeting and sometimes allows more time at the end of the meeting.

We appreciate Coralville (Iowa) Councilor Huynh for all her dedicated work and especially for calling upon her own lived experience in her beautifully stated opinion piece.

Link to the entire piece: littlevillagemag.com/letter-to-th...

Important discussion takes place during work sessions which are open to the public but are not live streamed or video archived by the City.

Thank you for engaging with Coralville city proceedings! Our attention and engagement is important.

For more info visit coralvilleflock.org

You are welcome to come and go during the meeting proceedings and we appreciate any amount of time you are able to be with us.

Many of us will stay for the entire meeting and also throughout the work session that follows the meeting.

Coralvillains we take care of each other

Please come for any portion of the meeting that you can. Whether or not you choose to speak during Community Comment, your presence is extremely valuable.

The entire agenda packet can be viewed here: coralville.org/AgendaCenter...

COMMUNITY ASK: pack the room on Tuesday, February 24 at 6:30 pm in Coralville City Hall council chambers for council’s vote on whether or not to cancel the city’s contract with Flock.

This agenda item including the council vote is close to the beginning of the meeting, just after community comment.

Yes and we need to work on a Coralville ordinance against them bc even if we manage to get them off city property, there are still loads of them on business properties (Lowe’s, the mall, etc)

Please let us know that you would like to add your name in support of ending mass AI surveillance in Coralville (information on how at the end of the article).

Also, if you have the means, please consider subscribing to Little Village, unequivocally our best source of news.

My favorite local-ish tattoo shop!

co-signed

if you are local (or even if you're not, really) I would very much appreciate your attention to this matter

It’s the breath between “to get you” and “all the compensation” for me

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service.

I want more people to make the connections.

Three screenshots of a zoom call between me and Carlos

The next chat episode of The Don Podley Padcast featuring Dan Padley will feature guitarist/composer Carlos Cotallo Solares. Stay tuned!

www.patreon.com/DanPadley?ut...

psssst maybe @padleydan.bsky.social can write HEY TOM CALL JUSTIN on the Englert green room mirror in lipstick

"get rid of these baby-snatchimg freaks" is so simple and so universally appealing, and our ossified so-called representatives can't even bring themselves to say it

"ICE held a 5-year-old hostage to try to smoke out his family, then disappeared him when it didn't work" is the closest I've gotten to fedposting

Yup

IMAGE TEXT: Feature: Search Anomalies and Account Sharing Introducing the Search Anomaly Index (SAI) to identify unusual search patterns, plus a new Account Sharing Candidates report. December 3, 2025 by H.C. van Pelt

IMAGE TEXT: At 2am, a University of Iowa detective was doing ~15 searches per hour, investigating a moving violation on behalf of Iowa City — a city that banned ALPRs.

“At 2am, a University of Iowa detective was doing ~15 searches per hour, investigating a moving violation on behalf of Iowa City — a city that banned ALPRs.”

Read and share: haveibeenflocked.com/news/search-...

IMAGE TEXT: Vector State: License Plates for Pedestrians December 1, 2025 by H.C. van Pelt 4 min read An oft-repeated claim is that Flock cameras don’t detect people, and when they do it’s only basic movement detection, and totally not facial detection. At this point, would we be surprised if pretty much all of that turned out to be a lie?

No, we are not surprised.

Read and share: haveibeenflocked.com/news/reid

If we’ve learned anything this year, it’s that the Coralville, IA city council needs eyes on them at all times.

Join us tonight! (Tues Nov 25 at 6:30 pm at Coralville City Hall).

Agenda: coralville.org/AgendaCenter...

Council meetings are 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 6:30 pm.

Hayworth not Hayward