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The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act uses the pretense of preventing organized retail theft to drastically expand the Trump administration's ability to surveil anyone visiting a retail center or public space. This bill has far-reaching privacy consequences for all Americans and could also disproportio nately impact Black, brown, and immigrant communities. As your constituent, I'm calling on you to reject CORCA and protect our privacy. gnition technology to automatic license plate readers like Flock – uld make it even easier for DHS to spy on us by allowing them to tu oplifters. rn their vast arsenal of surveillance technology – from facial reco ven by economic need rather than organized crime. Instead, CORCA wo on consumers around the country, all under the guise of stopping sh Mass surveillance does not keep us safe. Vote no on CORCA, and any other federal criminalization legislation that would expand surveillance, increase inc arceration rates, and harm our civil rights and liberties. CORCA will not meaningfully reduce retail theft, which is often dri