How It Started
In Plantation
I am not a politician. I am not a lawyer. I am not a career activist or a social media influencer. I am a mom — a mom who looked up one day and realized that the town she loves, the town she is raising her child in, was quietly moving toward mass surveillance. And nobody was talking about it. So I decided I would.
When I discovered that my city — Plantation, Florida — had been quietly expanding a network of automated license plate reader cameras, I was disturbed. Not because cameras exist. But because nobody asked us. No meaningful community conversation. No independent review of who owns our data, where it goes, or how long it's kept. Just cameras. Going up. Quietly.
I want to be clear about something: these are not safety companies. These are not surveillance companies. Axon. Rekor. Fusus. Flock. They are data collection companies. That is their product. That is their business model. And when they tell your city that your data won't be shared — ask them to put it in writing. Ask them to show you the contract. Ask them who else has access. Then watch how fast the answer changes.
I don't have a legal team. I don't have a political party behind me. I don't have corporate funding. What I have is a deep and unshakeable belief that the Fourth Amendment means something. That the right to be free from unreasonable search — to move through your own neighborhood without being logged, tracked, and stored in a corporate database — is not negotiable. Our founders didn't just give us the right to speak. They gave us the right to rise up against a government that stops serving its people. That right doesn't expire. It doesn't require permission. And I intend to use it.
I know I am not the only one who feels this way. I know there are mothers, fathers, veterans, teachers, and everyday Americans in every city who are watching the same cameras go up on their corners — and feeling the same disturbance in their gut. That feeling is your conscience. That feeling is correct.
That is why RECEIPTS exists. Not just for Plantation. For every city where Big Tech has walked into a city council chamber, made promises about public safety, and walked out with a contract — and your data.
We are not afraid. We are not alone. And we keep receipts.