A license plate camera does not wait for a reason. Networks like Flock log every car that drives past, and one search can reach tens of thousands of cameras across the country. A Texas sheriff's office searched more than 83,000 of them — including cameras in states where abortion is legal — for a woman its own search log said “had an abortion.” Local police have run searches on behalf of ICE, which has no contract of its own and uses them as a side door. Officers have been arrested for turning the same system on their exes, one allegedly more than 2,000 times. No federal rule required a warrant for any of it. A record of everywhere you drive is a record of where you worship, who you see, and which clinic you went to. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to require a warrant to search license plate data, cap how long it can be kept, bar federal agencies from getting around those rules by having local police run the search for them, and keep federal dollars away from camera networks that don't follow them.
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A license plate camera does not wait for a reason. Networks like Flock log every car that drives past, and one search can reach tens of thousands of cameras across the country. A Texas sheriff's office searched more than 83,000 of them — including cameras in states where abortion is legal — for a woman its own search log said “had an abortion.” Local police have run searches on behalf of ICE, which has no contract of its own and uses them as a side door. Officers have been arrested for turning the same system on their exes, one allegedly more than 2,000 times. No federal rule required a warrant for any of it. A record of everywhere you drive is a record of where you worship, who you see, and which clinic you went to. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to require a warrant to search license plate data, cap how long it can be kept, bar federal agencies from getting around those rules by having local police run the search for them, and keep federal dollars away from camera networks that don't follow them.
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