Why we exist
The grid wasn’t inevitable. It isn’t permanent.
We expose surveillance systems, follow where the information goes, challenge weak laws, and fight to shrink the infrastructure tracking people suspected of nothing.
The focus is institutional power: systems, government policy, laws, contracts, retention, data sharing, vendor relationships, and surveillance scale. Citizens Sentry does not harass or target individual officials.
What we fight
ALPR and location tracking
Systems that turn routine movement into searchable history.
Faces, biometrics, and AI
Tools that scale persistent identification and interpretation of people in public life.
Cameras, brokers, and government access
Networked collection and commercial data that allow surveillance power to spread quietly.
How we work
Investigate → Demonstrate → Expose → Challenge
Investigate the system
Map capability, scale, ownership, cost, authority, and data flow.
Demonstrate the power
Make surveillance capability visible through bounded, lawful, privacy-protective demonstrations.
Expose the consequences
Show how collection, access, retention, sharing, sale, and government acquisition affect ordinary people.
Challenge the rules
Demand necessity, proportionality, strong legal process, audits, limits, sunsets, and less surveillance.
Surveillance is the exception.