Block the FBI's $36 Million Nationwide License Plate Surveillance Contract

Block the FBI's proposed $36 million contract for nationwide license plate reader access. The FBI's Directorate of Intelligence is seeking "near real-time" data from cameras covering at least 75 percent of the country, searchable by location, vehicle type, and movement patterns. That is a warrantless surveillance dragnet, and it is a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. This isn't hypothetical overreach. Local police have already used Flock Safety's system to run searches for ICE, giving federal agencies backdoor access that California and Virginia law explicitly prohibit. The EFF found dozens of California agencies broke state law doing exactly this. Now the FBI wants to formalize and expand that access for up to five years across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. No warrant. No probable cause. Just continuous, nationwide tracking of where Americans drive. Oppose this contract and push for legislation requiring a warrant before any federal agency can access LPR data. My constitutional rights don't disappear when I pull out of my driveway.