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Sign onto the Perry-García amendment at Thursday's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee markup. This single sentence — conditioning Title 23 highway funds on restricting automated license plate readers to tolling only — would effectively end mass ALPR surveillance across the country. It's a rare bipartisan moment, and it deserves your support. The case for this amendment is not abstract. Flock Group, which operates roughly 88,000 cameras nationwide, was caught sharing data with federal immigration authorities and then admitted to giving "inaccurate information" in public denials. A Texas sheriff's deputy used Flock's network to track a woman because she had an abortion. The Brennan Center and EFF have documented ALPR systems targeting mosques and disproportionately surveilling low-income neighborhoods. San Jose's 474-camera network captured over 360 million photos in 2024 and was searched 15,000 times a day by California police. This is not a public safety tool — it's a surveillance infrastructure with no meaningful limits. Congress has used its spending power before to set national standards, from the drinking age to DUI thresholds. This amendment applies the same logic. Courts have so far declined to protect Americans from ALPR surveillance, so Congress must act. Thursday is the moment to do it.