Tea Party Patriots of Eastland County hosts Jeramy Kitchen, President of Texas Policy Research, on Thursday, July 9. Join us in the Big Dam Room of the Myrtle Wilks Community Center, 1498 W I-20, Cisco, at 6:30. Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Jeramy spoke at our September 2025 meeting. He is a Texas Tech graduate and a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst. He is a husband, father and concerned taxpayer. Now he poses the question, “Who’s Watching? Technology, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment.” He will discuss government use of cell data, federally mandated remote “kill switches” for all vehicles, and the spread of Flock camera surveillance, along with the recent Supreme Court decision in Chatrie v. US.
License plate readers (such as Flock Safety Cameras, launched in 2017 out of Atlanta) are pitched as helping small police departments that want surveillance cameras but cannot afford sophisticated infrastructure. Flock provides cameras cheaply (sometimes free upfront) in exchange for a subscription contract and data rights. Flock has contracts with more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies and 6,000+ communities across 49 states. Flock cameras scan over 20 billion license plates per month. It is the largest private vehicle location database in American history. It is NOT about the cameras but the DATA. Every Flock camera logs every license plate that passes it with timestamp, GPS coordinates, direction of travel, and vehicle description. Flock’s proprietary system, called Safety Network, has a checkbox called “Enable National lookups.” If checked, the agency’s camera data can be shared with every other agency in Flock’s National Lookup.
Do these surveillance systems align with the Fourth Amendment? That says,
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Join us in the Big Dam Room of the Myrtle Wilks Community Center, to discuss these important issues.
