[Civil liberties / surveillance accountability]
Watch the Watchers.
Civil Liberties in the Age of Surveillance.
Citizens Sentry investigates surveillance networks, explains how they operate, demonstrates what their capabilities mean in practice, and challenges unnecessary expansion.
[Mission briefing // 01]
Ordinary life should not become a movement file.
See why Citizens Sentry challenges systems that turn daily movement into searchable data.
Privacy-first playback: YouTube is not contacted until you press play.
FROM INFORMATION TO ACTION
Learn → Investigate → Act → Follow the campaign
See how ordinary movement becomes searchable surveillance data.
02InvestigateRequest contracts, inventories, retention rules, sharing records, and audit logs.
03ActUse meeting, email, petition, and records-request tools in your community.
04Follow the campaignTrack Campaign 001’s phase, funding account, safeguards, and public updates.
[ACTIVE CAMPAIGN: 001]
Flock the Flocking Flockers
Campaign 001 examines automated license-plate reader networks: camera counts, contracts, retention, access, data sharing, funding, oversight, and the policies that allow these systems to expand.
If legal and privacy review approves field work, Citizens Sentry would use a small, temporary, clearly marked, privacy-restricted demonstration to show how isolated observations can become searchable movement data.
The goal is not to build another surveillance network. The goal is to demonstrate why existing networks deserve scrutiny.
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How We Work
Investigate the system. Demonstrate what its capabilities mean. Expose what the public should know. Challenge surveillance that cannot be justified.
01 / Investigate
We examine contracts, policies, procurement records, retention rules, data-sharing agreements, funding, access controls, and surveillance infrastructure.
02 / Demonstrate
We build lawful, privacy-conscious demonstrations that make surveillance capabilities visible without targeting individuals.
03 / Expose
We publish sourced findings, records, reporting, and explanations that show the public how surveillance systems actually operate.
04 / Challenge
We push officials to justify cameras, reduce unnecessary systems, shorten retention, restrict sharing, and strengthen oversight.
Source Receipts
Facts should be traceable. Citizens Sentry separates sourced evidence from analysis so readers can see where claims come from.
[PUBLIC RECORD]
Contracts & Procurement
Vendor agreements, renewals, expenditures, procurement trails, and public funding used to build surveillance infrastructure.
[POLICY REVIEW]
Access, Retention & Sharing
Who can search the system, how long information is kept, how widely it can be shared, and what auditing actually exists.
[SOURCE RECEIPT]
Reporting & Official Statements
Primary documents and credible reporting supporting Citizens Sentry investigations, videos, posts, and campaign findings.
What We Are Asking For
Make Them Justify Every Camera.
Surveillance should be the exception. Cameras that are not necessary, proportionate, effective, and properly governed should come down.
Collect Less.
Do not collect more information simply because technology makes it possible.
Keep Less.
Retention should be short, justified, and tied to legitimate investigative need.
Share Less.
Local surveillance should not quietly feed massive searchable networks without public oversight.
Track Less.
Ordinary people should not become permanent movement records because they drove past a camera.
Audit Power.
Require access logs, misuse detection, independent review, public reporting, and enforceable consequences.
Transparency
Accountability includes showing the work. Citizens Sentry publishes campaign budgets, founder compensation, safeguards, expenditures, material changes, and final accounting.
| Campaign 001 budget | Amount |
|---|---|
| Legal & privacy review | $6,000 |
| Equipment & technical | $2,500 |
| Insurance & compliance | $1,500 |
| Public outreach & media | $3,500 |
| Website & communications | $1,000 |
| Accounting & administration | $1,000 |
| Founder project labor | Up to $6,000 |
| Contingency reserve | $3,500 |
| Total crowdfunding goal | $25,000 |
Founder compensation: $40 per documented hour, maximum 150 hours, maximum $6,000. Work includes public-records research, project management, technical preparation, documentation, outreach, and reporting. Compensation is documented and capped.
[Website privacy / practice what we demand]
We don’t track you to tell you not to be tracked.
No tracking pixels. No ad profiles. No cross-site surveillance. The mission video does not contact YouTube until you choose to play it.
- No Meta Pixel, fingerprinting, session replay, or marketing pixels
- No persistent visitor profiles
- Only routine hosting and security records needed to deliver and protect the site
- Click-to-load privacy-enhanced YouTube playback
[Operating principle / privacy first]
Our Line
Citizens Sentry challenges surveillance without becoming surveillance.
POWER IS THE TARGET.
PEOPLE ARE NOT.
- No targeting private individuals
- No dossiers
- No facial recognition in demonstrations
- Focus on public systems, procurement, policy, data practices, and government accountability
[PUBLIC POWER REQUIRES PUBLIC SCRUTINY]
Make Them Justify Every Camera.
The surveillance grid was not inevitable.
And it is not permanent.
FEWER CAMERAS. // LESS DATA. // MORE FREEDOM.