Oct 11, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
What does the future of Cobb County look like? \District 3 Commissioner candidate Kevin Redmon joins us to share his strategy for keeping Cobb safe, affordable, and…
take whatever win you can get, right? So one of the things that's a hot button issue right now, fog cameras, data centers.
I won't expect, necessarily ask you to comment on AI, because I don't know if the commission has any role there.
However, when it comes to data centers and rezoning or flock cameras, You know, what is your take? Because I can understand from a public safety perspective what the argument would be.
That's not the issue for me.
The issue is who has the data? Who owns the data? Who gets to look through the data? Is there a warrant? You know, there needs to be, in my opinion, some sort of judicial oversight to prevent bad actors, which we've already seen.
But I'm open to hearing how you frame the issue in your mind.
Let's make sure we talk about the communication piece after we get through this.
But I've been in IT for nearly two decades now, 20 years of my career, and have spent time working with some of the world's largest companies about cybersecurity, posturing, data, privacy, all those things that are relevant to what we're seeing today.
The flat camera issue to me is an important one because people are trying to understand what these cameras are capturing, who has access to it, all those things.
And I've told people who are opposing it, first I tell them, keep opposing it if that's how you feel.
If you're truly feeling this way, show up to the board of commissioners meetings like we tell everybody else and make your voice heard.
But my opinion, even if we were to remove flock cameras from Cobb County, like another vendor is going to come in.
And so the way I look at it is we have to take a step back and see how this Cobb County really approach technology vendors that are operating within the county.
Like if there's any vendor that's going to come in and capture personal data, whether it's a license plate or bumper sticker or your face, or your voice or anything else, I think there has to be a real well-defined data governance policy that's defined in the county.
And the county can say, if you want to be a technology vendor that works with us, you have to fit within these guardrails.
We have to understand where that data is stored, who has access to it, how long it is stored, and all those things you talked about.
reasonable approach, what I heard.
A lot of your district, especially East Cobb, are Republican independent leading, like former George Bush, Reagan Republicans, a lot of them.
take whatever win you can get, right? So one of the things that's a hot button issue right now, fog cameras, data centers.
I won't expect, necessarily ask you to comment on AI, because I don't know if the commission has any role there.
However, when it comes to data centers and rezoning or flock cameras, You know, what is your take? Because I can understand from a public safety perspective what the argument would be.
That's not the issue for me.
The issue is who has the data? Who owns the data? Who gets to look through the data? Is there a warrant? You know, there needs to be, in my opinion, some sort of judicial oversight to prevent bad actors, which we've already seen.
But I'm open to hearing how you frame the issue in your mind.
Let's make sure we talk about the communication piece after we get through this.
But I've been in IT for nearly two decades now, 20 years of my career, and have spent time working with some of the world's largest companies about cybersecurity, posturing, data, privacy, all those things that are relevant to what we're seeing today.
The flat camera issue to me is an important one because people are trying to understand what these cameras are capturing, who has access to it, all those things.
And I've told people who are opposing it, first I tell them, keep opposing it if that's how you feel.
If you're truly feeling this way, show up to the board of commissioners meetings like we tell everybody else and make your voice heard.
But my opinion, even if we were to remove flock cameras from Cobb County, like another vendor is going to come in.
And so the way I look at it is we have to take a step back and see how this Cobb County really approach technology vendors that are operating within the county.
Like if there's any vendor that's going to come in and capture personal data, whether it's a license plate or bumper sticker or your face, or your voice or anything else, I think there has to be a real well-defined data governance policy that's defined in the county.
And the county can say, if you want to be a technology vendor that works with us, you have to fit within these guardrails.
We have to understand where that data is stored, who has access to it, how long it is stored, and all those things you talked about.
reasonable approach, what I heard.
A lot of your district, especially East Cobb, are Republican independent leading, like former George Bush, Reagan Republicans, a lot of them.
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