The state budget included an item that funds and permits the use of AI cameras on state roads to assist law enforcement.
Automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, record the license plates of every vehicle driving by as well as the make, model and color of their vehicles.
This is a threshold that government ought not cross.
This type of surveillance creates a society that is less free; and emboldens government to overstep its bounds.
Amen, Triad! Did the legislators so much as ask the people’s opinions? Did some of them get campaign money for Flock (they see us as sheep after all) or other camera suppliers? Now Big Brother supersedes the 4th Amendment; we are all under warrantless continual surveillance.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”
No, they didn’t ask us, J. Sobran. I agree– an examination of campaign monies might be in order.
I Agree !
It seems, Fred, there would be more moral sense than to advance such a program.