The camera conversation in Prescott isn’t over.
On August 20, 2026, Jason Zinzilieta, host of KYCA Radio’s The American Revolution, responded on air to comments Prescott Mayor Cathey Rusing made to Jen’s Two Cents about privately owned cameras overlooking public spaces.
Those comments appeared in my recent investigation, “‘Hypocrites.’ Prescott’s Camera Debate Takes an Unexpected Turn.”
Rusing had questioned why people who oppose Flock Safety license plate readers would operate their own cameras pointed at public spaces, telling me:
“The same people installing these cameras are against flock? What a bunch of hypocrites.”
Now, one of those camera operators is weighing in.
KYCA operates a livestream camera overlooking Whiskey Row in downtown Prescott. According to Zinzilieta, the camera has been running for about six months.
He pushed back on the comparison between KYCA’s livestream and Flock’s automated license plate readers.
“The mayor has her opinion about the private cameras that are up there. And we’re one of them. We have one up there.”
Zinzilieta said KYCA isn’t collecting or selling data from the livestream.
“We don’t sell any of the data. There’s no data to sell. It’s just running. Just like the railway cameras they’ve had running around the country. And I always thought those were so fun.”
He also addressed what viewers can actually see.
“With our camera.... I looked on it. I can’t figure out what license plates say. I can’t read ’em. And I’m really not sure about identifying people that are on the camera.”
And then came an interesting detail.
According to Zinzilieta, viewers who look closely at KYCA’s livestream can see another camera across the street:
One of Prescott’s Flock cameras.
“If you look on our camera very carefully, you look across the street on one of the light poles, you can see the Flock camera that’s over there, the city has. It’s right there in the middle of the screen.”
In other words, one camera provides a public livestream of Whiskey Row.
The other is part of the City’s automated license plate reader system.
Zinzilieta also extended an invitation to Mayor Rusing to discuss both.
“If the mayor wishes to address this with us, I have told her in the past, she is welcome to come on the air. In fact, I invited her again today.”
So, Mayor Rusing has raised her concerns about privately owned cameras.
Eye on Prescott has responded.
Now KYCA Radio has responded.
And KYCA is offering the mayor a microphone.
The camera debate in Prescott continues.