In Kansas, a police department made up a case to spy on an OpEd writer

source: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP897YMcr/

#Kansas #Lenexa #LenexaPD #KS #LenexaKS #LenexaKansas #PressFreedom #Journalism

#Kansas Town Uses #LicensePlateReaders to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed

Police in #Lenexa , Kansas used automated license plate reader ( #ALPR ) technology to pursue a man who wrote a critical op-ed about the police department, according to reporting by Kansas public radio station #KCUR. This is a rare public example of exactly the kind of #abuse that we’ve long warned against when it comes to mass-surveillance systems like #licenseplate readers.
#surveillance #privacy

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/alpr-against-op-ed-writer

Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU

Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers

American Civil Liberties Union
Good morning fellow humans! #lenexa #kansascity #unitedstates

Pretty much no one is shooting cops in order to kill them.
Cops always shoot to kill.

& every single shot fired at a cop has been justified.

No bullet a cop has ever shot has ever been justified.
There's the difference.

#DarrenChandler #MalcolmJohnson #KC #Lenexa