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🚨 Arizona — Heads Up on SB1111. Don't China our AZ.
A new bill rushing through the Arizona legislature allows the government to build a "pattern of life" dossier on every driver using public roads, with BIG government mass-surveillance automated license plate reader cameras — tracking your routines, associations, and movements 24/7.
It's the perfect foundation for Oxford-style 15-minute cities: zone enforcement (you can't leave your neighborhood in your vehicle without a fine), congestion pricing, and anti-first amendment monitoring. In the next crisis (COVID 2.0 or worse), it flips to China-level lockdown enforcement overnight.
Businesses: Do you want the government to know every person who visits your location, with a dossier on each?
A group of citizens was blocked from the official legislative stakeholder group. So we got together anyway and created a strong amendment package that must be added to SB1111 to stop Arizona from becoming a totalitarian state like China.
Don't wait until the cameras are everywhere and the rules are already bent. We must force these top-priority amendments before the vote or kill SB 1111. Your voice is needed!
The Problem with AZ SB1111
The current version of S.B. 1111 authorizes statewide use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by law enforcement but provides only minimal safeguards: basic training, password access, and case tracking.
It contains no limits on indefinite data retention, no restrictions on mass surveillance or “fishing expeditions,” no rules for private vendors (e.g., Flock Safety), and no oversight for HOAs or schools.
It blocks citizens from accessing their own data or making corrections when ai gets it wrong. Arizona risks becoming one of the weakest ALPR states—creating a permanent dragnet surveillance system with no real accountability.
If They Won't Kill the Bill, This Citizen Amendment Package is the Solution
These amendments turn S.B. 1111 into one of the strongest ALPR bills in the country while preserving legitimate law-enforcement tools. Core bargain: Law enforcement gets a practical 30-day window for real-time alerts and documented felony investigations. In exchange, every query requires a felony case number + supervisor sign-off, data is automatically destroyed after 30 days, and citizens gain transparency and enforcement rights. No long-term dossiers on every citizen.
Five Tiers of Protection:
TIER 1 — THE STRUCTURAL ESSENTIALS
Without these, passing the bill is worse than passing nothing at all. These stop SB 1111 from legalizing unlimited mass tracking.
TIER 2 — CLOSES THE BACKDOORS
Plugs the biggest loopholes so the Tier 1 rules can’t be easily bypassed or rendered meaningless.
TIER 3 — ACCOUNTABILITY & OVERSIGHT
Adds real teeth: audit trails, mandatory reporting, AG enforcement, and automatic shutdowns for non-compliance.
TIER 4 — CITIZEN RIGHTS & TRANSPARENCY
Gives everyday Arizonans power: your right to see/delete your data, public portals, and citizen lawsuits with real damages.
TIER 5 — SAFEGUARDS & SUNSET
Extra layers of protection: short retention, no occupant photos, community votes, and a 3-year sunset to force future review as tech evolves.
Arizona is Better Off without SB1111 in its Current Form:
Arizona's Constitution Prevails to Protect Citizens
Arizona Constitution, Article 2, Section 8 states:
"No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law."
That shocked camera on our logo says it all: SB 1111 would massively expand automated license plate readers (ALPRs)—AI cameras that scan every car’s plate as it drives by—without the guardrails Arizona families deserve. These systems, often from vendors like Flock Safety, are already on roads, at schools, and in neighborhoods.
ALPRs don’t just read plates—they track people. Every scan logs your vehicle’s location, time, and direction. Over time, this creates a detailed map of your life: where you live, work, shop, drop kids at school, hang out at a bar, visit friends, or exercise your First Amendment rights. Combined data reveals patterns of life, who you associate with, and even predicts where you’ll go next.
SB 1111 is racing through the Arizona Senate right now — and if it passes without the strongest fixes, it hands the state the exact digital surveillance backbone needed for 15-minute city enforcement, zone-based movement restrictions, and rapid crisis lockdowns (think COVID 2.0 on steroids).
The clock is ticking: Once these ALPR cameras (from vendors like Flock Safety) are legalized with weak rules, the infrastructure is in place. The next emergency declaration could flip the switch — turning everyday drives into tracked, restricted, permission-required travel, just like Oxford, England, today, or China/Australia in crisis mode.
How SB1111 Violates the Arizona Constitution:
Arizona's constitution has a strong privacy rule (Article II, Section 8) that says no one can be bothered in their private affairs without clear "authority of law." This is tougher than the U.S. Constitution's rules. SB1111 doesn't require police to get a warrant (court permission based on good reason) before looking at old location data from these cameras. It also lets them keep the data forever with no time limit, and hides all the records from the public so people can't check for misuse. Courts in other cases (like Carpenter v. United States) have said collecting tons of location info over time invades privacy—like creating a map of someone's whole life. Because SB1111 allows this kind of constant, warrantless tracking and doesn't fix those problems, it violates Arizona's stronger privacy protections and should not become law.
