10/13/2026
When a federal court rules that warrantless police access to Flock’s license plate surveillance network violates the Fourth Amendment, every American should be paying attention.
In Oklahoma, a federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s constitutional rights by using networked automated license plate databases to track her movements across multiple states without probable cause or a search warrant. The court recognized that aggregating weeks of automated location data crosses the line into indiscriminate mass surveillance.
Now imagine police using this same technology to determine whether someone is cheating on their spouse, visiting liquor stores, attending political rallies, going to church, seeking therapy, or receiving addiction treatment. These are not far-fetched scenarios. They illustrate how surveillance technology can be used without probable cause or a search warrant to reconstruct the intimate patterns of anyone’s daily life, directly encroaching on everyone’s Fourth Amendment protections.
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