You Are Being Tracked: End the use of ALPRs and Stop Dragnet Police Surveillance
Local and national elected lawmakers
Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) made by companies like Flock and Motorola Solutions are spreading across the country. These dragnet surveillance systems allow police (and business owners, and HOAs…) to track and trace the movement of anyone who drives a car.
Surveilling everyone’s driving patterns doesn’t make us safer. Instead, it makes us less safe by infringing on our right to move freely, while fueling the numbers-based policing that preys upon Black, brown and poor people. On top of that, these cameras make a ton of mistakes—mistakes that lead to frightening police encounters and wrongful arrests.
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To:
Local and national elected lawmakers
From:
[Your Name]
As your constituent, I urge you to do everything in your power to end the use of invasive and dystopian automated license plate readers (ALPRs) in our community. ALPRs are dragnet surveillance tools that fuel abusive policing practices, giving ICE, CBP, and local police the ability to track people and repress dissent. Rather than directing public funds towards dangerous technology, we should be investing in resources that are proven to keep communities safe: jobs, housing, health services, and education. I’m calling on you to join the leaders of over two dozen cities and towns across the country that have ended ALPR contracts or turned their cameras off in recent months. Please take a stand against the dystopian surveillance technology infiltrating our neighborhoods.