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    Nelson Coates elected president of Art Directors Guild

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Nelson Coates has been elected president of the 2,300-member Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) for a three-year term, succeeding Mimi Gramatky. Also elected for three-year terms are Patrick DeGreve as VP, Oana Bogdan as treasurer and Thomas Wilkins as secretary. Scott Roth continues as ADG’s executive director.

    Coates said, “I am thrilled to receive this mandate from my fellow ADG members. Our future strength lies in the unity of all our uniquely creative parts. I look forward to working with Pat, Oana and Tom and making our Guild stronger than ever.”

    A member of Local 800 since 1996, Coates has been designing features, television and commercials for more than 25 years. Known for such films as Flight (2012), Runaway Jury (2003) and The Proposal (2009), he has also designed miniseries such as Stephen King’s The Stand (Emmy nomination), and the series October Road for ABC. His work was recently seen in Hot Pursuit (2015) and Secret in Their Eyes (2015). A member of the Television Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Coates is one of the few members of Local 800 to begin his entertainment career as a professional actor. When not on a set, he does design projects such as the restoration and reimagining of the Witch’s House in Beverly Hills.

    Coates was instrumental in creating and organizing the first new member orientation, and the first member directory for the Art Directors Guild.

    A frequent lecturer, guest mentor, and panelist at numerous colleges, universities & film festivals, Coates actively works to educate future designers and filmmakers throughout the US and internationally.

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    Amazon scraps partnership with surveillance company after Super Bowl ad backlash

    Friday, February 13, 2026
    A person pushes the doorbell on their Ring doorbell camera, July 16, 2019, in Wolcott, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

    Amazon's smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety.

    The announcement follows a backlash that erupted after 30-second Ring ad that aired during the Super Bowl featuring a lost dog that is found through a network of cameras, sparking fears of a dystopian surveillance society.

    But that feature, called Search Party, was not related to Flock. And Ring's announcement doesn't cite the ad as a reason for the "joint decision" for the cancellation.

    Ring and Flock said last year they were planning on working together to give Ring camera owners the option to share their video footage in response to law enforcement requests made through a Ring feature known as Community Requests.

    "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated," Ring's statement said.

    "The integration never launched, so no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock Safety."

    Flock reiterated that it never received Ring customer videos — and that ending the planned integration was a mutual decision that allows both companies to "best serve their respective customers." In a statement, Flock added that it "remains dedicated to supporting law enforcement agencies with tools that are fully configurable to local laws and policies."

    Flock is one of the nation's biggest operators of automated license-plate reading systems. Its cameras are mounted in thousands of communities across the U.S., capturing and billions of photos of license plates each month. The company has faced public outcry amid the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement crackdown. But Flock maintains that it does... Read More

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