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Free Speech Unmuted: Flock Cameras and the Fourth Amendment, with Orin Kerr

Not quite free speech, but free speech adjacent, and I think of interest to many of our regular Free Speech Unmuted listeners.

Eugene Volokh | 10.27.2026 1:18 PM

Do you have a right to privacy on public roads? Hoover fellow and Stanford legal scholar Orin Kerr joins me in this episode to discuss Flock cameras, the networked license plate readers fueling debate over police surveillance. We discuss how the Fourth Amendment applies to tracking people's movements; whether police should need a warrant to search camera databases; how to balance investigative benefits with the potential for abuse; and what we still don't know about these tools' effectiveness in protecting public safety.

Jane Bambauer, my regular........

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