FLOCK THE FLOCKING FLOCKERS.
Expose how ALPR networks operate, demonstrate what connection changes, challenge unnecessary expansion, and reduce surveillance infrastructure that cannot show a compelling and proportionate public need.
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We ask government to account for surveillance spending. We’ll account for ours.
Transparency note: The bar remains unfilled until the first contribution total is verified and published. No amount is being inferred from private payment data.
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People suspected of nothing should not have their movements routinely collected and stored simply because technology makes it possible.
A plate reader does not just see a car. It builds a trail.
One observation can connect a plate, image, time, and place. A network can make thousands of observations searchable across days, locations, agencies, and jurisdictions—turning ordinary driving into a durable movement record.
Make government justify the grid.
A camera can be a tool. A network can become a tracking system. Campaign 001 asks what exists, who can search it, how long the data remains, how far it travels, what it costs, and whether each part can be justified.
THE CAMERA IS THE PROTEST.
Clearly marked and temporary
If approved, any camera would be placed only on privately authorized property, visibly labeled, time-limited, and operated under published rules.
People are not
Citizens Sentry is not building a competing surveillance network, secretly watching people, or targeting individual officials. The demonstration is political speech about normalized capability.
What does connection change?
The purpose is to make surveillance power tangible while challenging infrastructure that should not exist at its current scale.
If legal and privacy review approves field work, Citizens Sentry would use a small, temporary, clearly marked, privacy-restricted demonstration. If the gate is not satisfied, the campaign does not deploy.
Fight surveillance without becoming surveillance.
Every method must minimize collection, restrict access, protect identifying information, and make deletion verifiable.
Legal/privacy review and records research
Define authority, exclusions, records targets, geography, measurable objectives, and campaign boundaries.
Technical design and safeguards
Write the access, security, retention, redaction, publication, insurance, and deletion controls.
Approved demonstration—if cleared
Authorize field work only if every legal and privacy condition is satisfied. Otherwise, stop.
Findings, public report, and accounting
Publish methods, evidence, limits, costs, policy demands, material changes, and final accounting.
MAKE THEM JUSTIFY EVERY CAMERA. IF THEY CAN’T, TAKE IT DOWN.
- Show a defined, evidence-based public need—not a generalized claim that more data might someday help.
- Publish camera locations, contracts, costs, retention, search access, sharing relationships, and audit results.
- Use the least intrusive effective alternative and require regular public reauthorization.
- Remove cameras, shorten retention, narrow access, and end sharing that cannot meet the test.
The money follows the method.
The crowdfunding goal is $25,000. Funding supports legal/privacy review, equipment, insurance/compliance, public outreach, documentation, administration, and documented project labor.
| 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 and $6,000. Covered work includes public-records research, project management, technical preparation, documentation, outreach, and reporting. Compensation is capped, work-based, and never a percentage of contributions.
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Show the system. Show the safeguards. Show the work.
Records and network analysis
Public-records research, camera and jurisdiction mapping where evidence supports it, contracts, costs, retention, search access, sharing, and vendor relationships.
Documented capability
If legally cleared: a bounded demonstration, published methods and safeguards, limitations, deviations, and deletion results.
Public findings and action tools
Surveillance-policy analysis, effectiveness review, alternatives that collect less, campaign media, and an action guide for reduction and removal.
A public record of the work.
Phase 1 infrastructure published
Campaign 001 remains in legal/privacy review and records-research planning. Citizens Sentry published the campaign status account, the Take Action records toolkit, and the Watch Your Government page. No field deployment is authorized; the written legal/privacy gate remains active.
Surveillance developments. Public records. Campaign updates. Ways to act.
No ad tracking. No selling subscriber data. Unsubscribe anytime.
No mailing-list service is connected yet. Until a privacy-reviewed service is approved, request updates by email.
Campaign 001, clearly.
Is Citizens Sentry tracking individuals?
No. Power is the target; people are not. The campaign prohibits individual targeting, facial recognition, identity enrichment, and publication of raw identifying observations.
Does fundraising authorize camera deployment?
No. Fundraising supports review, research, design, documentation, and reporting. Field activity requires a separate written go/no-go decision after legal and privacy review.
Is Citizens Sentry calling for fewer ALPR cameras?
Yes. Every camera should face a compelling, proportionate, evidence-based test. If it cannot meet that test, it should come down.
What will be published?
Methods, safeguards, costs, findings, limitations, policy analysis, deliverables, material changes, founder labor, and final accounting—without exposing identifying raw observations.
FEWER CAMERAS. LESS DATA. MORE FREEDOM.
THE GRID WASN’T INEVITABLE. AND IT ISN’T PERMANENT.
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