EPISODE · Sep 1, 2026 · 35 MIN
H1 - SC lawmakers introduced H.4675 to restrict law enforcement's use of Flock cameras, capping data retention at 21 days.
from The Charlie James Show Podcast
South Carolina lawmakers have introduced House Bill H.4675, a piece of legislation aimed at establishing clear boundaries for law enforcement's use of Flock license plate reading cameras and similar surveillance technologies across the state. Under the provisions of the proposed bill, surveillance data would be subject to strict privacy controls, prohibiting storage on private corporate servers and mandating that all data remain on secure, state-controlled servers physically located within South Carolina. To protect citizens' civil liberties, the legislation restricts police from using artificial intelligence to identify vehicles based solely on their visual appearance, requiring specific license plate numbers for searches instead. Furthermore, the bill enforces a strict 21-day maximum retention period for collected data—after which it must be automatically purged unless linked to an active criminal investigation authorized by a court—and requires law enforcement officers to secure a probable-cause search warrant prior to accessing the database.
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Transcript Charlie James: All right, welcome to the program on your Tuesday afternoon. I got some, some news this afternoon. Apparently, the United States is hitting some targets over in Iran because what they decided to do, because we've destroyed pretty much all of their little boats that they can go out and, and, and put mines in the Strait of Hormuz, they decided that they were going to put these mines on rockets. And that they were going to send the mines in via rockets. Well, President Trump did not take too kindly to that. US Central Command said today that the strikes follow recent attempts, attempted attacks by IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed in the region. Now, on Sunday, the US military said it struck rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded, but responded by launching missiles at US sites in Jordan, which were intercepted except for one, which wasn't going to hit anything anyway. Um, while United Arab Emirates said it stopped an Iranian drone over its waters, President Trump acknowledged that more strikes would be necessary. He said the United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful. Now, I don't understand, I mean, these guys, they, they got to get, they got to get the message soon. I mean, they can, can be that, they be that absolutely ignorant? Possibly. I did notice coming in today that gas was about ten dollars a gallon more than it was yesterday. Yesterday coming in $3.69. This afternoon coming in $3.79. And President Trump did meet with some of the refiners to try to get them to lower gas prices. And that's, that's, we got to have that. We got to have that. I mean, we are, we are, I don't even know how many days we are until the midterms right now, but if the Republicans are looking at winning this thing at all, they got to get it done. Absolutely got to get it done. Well, there you go. Well, somebody said, "Thank God you're on the air." Well, yeah, I literally because I woke up last night about, I went to bed about 9:30. I woke up about 11:30 last night and I was shivering. I was so cold. So cold, I had to go get a blanket and put it on. I mean, I was, I had chills. Woke up later on this morning feeling pretty, well, feeling kind of rough right now. So you guys let me know if it's a, if anything is going on out there, because if there is, I might have it. My wife was feeling bad last week. I'm feeling a little crappy today, so you're going to have to bear with me just a little bit this afternoon. Coming up in just a few minutes, we are going to be talking about a new bill and what this bill would do is it would put restraints on Flock cameras. Now remember, our wonderful state legislature here just a couple days ago voted for almost $300 million in earmarks, and in those earmarks was money for Flock cameras. And the members of the Freedom Caucus have gotten together and they have said, "Hey, listen, we, we think there should, and I think there should be, there should be some restraints about who can use Flock cameras and when, right?" So we'll talk about that coming up in just a little bit. Also this afternoon, we're going to be talking with Matt Hogan. He is the deputy administrator for, for Anderson County. They've got Anderson County's, well, Anderson's 200th anniversary coming up this weekend. It is going to be a big, big, giant event. I want you to make sure if you can at all go, I mean they got so much going on at this event and it brings in a tremendous amount of money for Anderson and Anderson County. Also, we're going to be talking with Ralph Norman this afternoon at 4:06. There was a video out there that sounds like, and a lot of people in the media are like, "Oh, can't believe he said that," sounds like Ralph Norman is calling for a write-in campaign. Write-in campaign. So we'll have to see. We'll have to see wh ...
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H1 - SC lawmakers introduced H.4675 to restrict law enforcement's use of Flock cameras, capping data retention at 21 days.
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