WHEREAS, the Libertarian Party fundamentally defends the right of the individual to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, and asserts that the Fourth Amendment strictly prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, including the warrantless tracking of law-abiding citizens;
WHEREAS, domestic law enforcement agencies are rapidly deploying integrated mass surveillance networks, including Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) from companies like Flock Safety and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) platforms such as Leonardo/ELSAG SignalTrace, which capture license plates and vehicle fingerprints and passively collect Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and RFID emissions from personal devices to create persistent tracking profiles, allowing authorities to continuously monitor citizens’ movements without individualized suspicion, probable cause, or judicial oversight;
WHEREAS, these systems are deployed through stealth tactics that deliberately avoid public input and oversight, and produce wrongful stops and arrests because, even at a low individual error rate, scanning an overwhelmingly innocent population means the vast majority of “matches” flag people who have done nothing wrong — a mathematical certainty that vendors and agencies routinely obscure when marketing these systems as reliable;
WHEREAS, corporations claim perpetual licensing rights to captured data while training officers to advocate for their products;
WHEREAS, this dragnet surveillance systematically treats every citizen as a potential suspect, normalizes mass monitoring, and unjustly shifts the burden of defending constitutional rights onto individuals while state legislatures move to codify surveillance secrecy; and
WHEREAS, successful community resistance in Arizona and other jurisdictions demonstrates that surveillance implementations can be reversed when transparency and democratic processes are restored, with the Arizona Libertarian Party leading efforts including public testimony, coalition building, community organizing, public records requests, and developing alternative legislation requiring public hearings, warrant protections, and transparency measures,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee categorically condemns the deployment of mass surveillance networks and demands that any collection of movement data or digital emissions by law enforcement be strictly prohibited without a targeted warrant issued by a judge based upon probable cause of a specific crime; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Libertarian National Committee directs its communications staff and encourages affiliates to educate communities about surveillance threats, share successful resistance models developed by affiliates including the Arizona Libertarian Party, expose corporate influence operations, and build broad coalitions to restore constitutional protections in the digital surveillance age.