North Carolina Rep. Pat Harrigan has introduced the Automated License Plate Reader Accountability Act of 2026, which would ban ALPR searches for “expressive attributes” such as bumper stickers, require warrants for most searches, mandate deletion of records after 24 hours and prohibit vendors from selling location data.

Documented abuses include officers using Flock Safety cameras for personal surveillance and a hacker network that extracted 1.6 million images from a single Flock camera in 21 days, while Reps. Thomas Massie and Eric Burlison have separately proposed the Flock-Off Act to bar federal funding for such systems.

The article extends the accountability critique to intelligence agencies, noting the FBI’s failure to prevent multiple post-9/11 attacks and calling for broader “Deep State Accountability” measures.

Automated license plate readers (ALPR) are also tracking bumper stickers, everything from “Back the Blue” to “Jesus Saves” and “Black Lives Matter,” and that has raised concerns in Congress.  North Carolina Rep. Pat Harrigan has introduced legislation to ban ALPR searches targeting  “expressive attributes” such as bumper stickers, flags or even decals. The........

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