{"podcast":{"title":"The Tom Roten Show","slug":"the-tom-roten-show-6668594","podcast_index_feed_id":6668594,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5987430/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.tomrotenshow.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9a0102a494de0eae3a0328dcfc1f08c5.jpg","author":"Roten Media Group","episode_count":688,"summary":"The “Straight Shooter” returns! The Tom Roten Show podcast debuted in 2023 and is available anywhere you find podcasts. The All New Tom Roten Morning Show radio program, which was the #1 talk show in the Huntington, WV market for over two decades, is back! For 22 years, Tom built a reputation of holding politicians and governments accountable in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. Tom returned to the morning airwaves January 2025 on The Eagle with Total Media Radio. His efforts have been recognized in numerous ways. Tom has been honored several times by the WV Broadcasters Association for excellence in broadcasting. The KY Baptist Convention recognized Tom with their annual Integrity Award for “accurate, fair and balanced coverage of faith issues” in 2018. The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels presented a plaque commissioning Tom Roten as a Kentucky Colonel in 2021.Tom is originally from Glenville, WV and graduated from Gilmer County High School. He attended Marshall University where he began working at the college radio station in 1986. He has worked at various commercial stations including WSGB in Sutton, WV and WVHU in Huntington, WV. Since 2022, Tom has been a high school ba…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T02:18:39.188519+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tom-roten-show-6668594"},"episode":{"title":"Huntington Community Highly Suspicious of Flock Contract","slug":"huntington-community-highly-suspicious-of-flock-contract","published_at":"2026-07-15T18:16:21+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tom-roten-show-6668594/huntington-community-highly-suspicious-of-flock-contract","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tom-roten-show-6668594","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/huntington-community-highly-suspicious-of-flock-contract--72996577","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72996577/tom_roten_show_ep_677.mp3","summary":"While Flock cameras are marketed to law enforcement as tools to solve violent crime and recover stolen vehicles, civil liberties groups and investigative journalists have documented numerous cases of misuse, overreach, and system errors. There are reports of officers using the massive surveillance network to pursue individuals out of personal vendettas, such as tracking down a local citizen who wrote a critical newspaper op-ed or stalking an ex-girlfriend. In the discussion today, one of the concerns is that this technology will lead to a \"social credit score\" like what is done in China and other countries. Douglas Franklin and Hoyt Glazer were in attendance during the City Council's approval of a $2 Million contract between Huntington, WV and Flock Safety. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-tom-roten-show--5987430/support .","meta_description":"While Flock cameras are marketed to law enforcement as tools to solve violent crime and recover stolen vehicles, civil liberties groups and investigative…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2849,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tom-roten-show-6668594/episodes/huntington-community-highly-suspicious-of-flock-contract/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tom-roten-show-6668594/huntington-community-highly-suspicious-of-flock-contract.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}