In September the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty sued Waukesha County and eleven municipalities over warrantless searches of Flock plate-reader data. In October the ACLU of Wisconsin and EFF took the same question straight to the Wisconsin Supreme Court against Milwaukee, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha. What each asks for, and what the record says.
Records notice. The Milwaukee Police Department produced eight files on cell-site simulators twelve weeks after the request. Seven are posted here as produced. Analysis is a separate post.
Records notice. Green Bay answered the Flock hotlist request in 34 days: no records on three items, the transparency portal for the fourth, and a written statement that the NCIC Immigration Violator file has never been enabled. Analysis is a separate post.
Wisconsin wrote surveillance laws for some sensors and not others. A look at what the state governs, what it doesn’t, and what happened in Milwaukee in between.
To dismantle privilege, we must first understand the systems that create it. This curated list covers the essential texts on Public Choice, Information Disparity, and Human Behavior.
The Mandate requires continuous audits of governing contexts (taxation, zoning, educational policy) and enforcement of knowledge parity to ensure the system is neutral, not rigged.
Sovereignty is universal. Unbound Immunity is granted by power. Understanding this distinction is the first step toward reclaiming our collective power.