Longtime Cedar Rapids resident Josh Whartman was driving home from work one day when something strange caught his eye.
“I noticed this black camera, which is odd,” Whartman said. “I thought it was bizarre. Having worked for the city, I kind of had an interest in surveillance and like, ‘What’s the city doing?’ I figured it was a traffic camera.”
He had lived in the area for 30 years and worked as a public records administrator. But Whartman had never seen a camera like it before — a tiny black box connected to a single solar panel…