Someone in the US fighting big brother police state constant surveillance.

In the USA state of Washington, many cities deployed Flock automatic license-plate recognition cameras.

Note these cameras don't just go after speeders, and expired regos.

They are also used for surveillance by immigration control, ICE. This including mostly ordinary law abiding people, of no interest to the police.

Since these are government paid recording devices, a public records request was made for footage/images/data captured by the cameras under their state Public Records Act.

The law defines public records as information prepared, owned, used, or retained by a public agency, in this case automatic license-plate cameras and the police.

A court held the photos taken in public is a public record under Washington’s Public Records, and may be released to a common citizen if requested.

As a result, a court ruled these photos of innocent bystanders captured by a public agency, the police, using automatic license plate reader is subject to public records disclosure.

Don't think it's much better here. NZ Police, NZTA and local council all use automatic license plate reader. Private companies like Auror and SaferCities operate platforms which combine CCTV and ANPR data.

'CCTV is ubiquitous' - Police cleared to tap into private cameras: RNZ

Police have been given the legal clearance to continue tapping into private cameras more than 200,000 times a year for evidence.

In newly released rulings, judges knocked back several legal challenges that had argued that it should be inadmissible to rely on the number-plate-identifying cameras.

One judge said: "Whilst we might all feel uncomfortable by the idea of being watched, the reality of life today is that CCTV is ubiquitous."
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Records show officers tap more 600 times a day into the private company Auror's platform that hosts camera stills and video - amounting 220,000 times last year.
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