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On September 21, 2026, the ACLU, ACLU of Nevada and the Innocence Project filed an amicus brief in the District of Nevada in support of Jason Killinger, a man wrongfully arrested after police relied on an incorrect result from facial recognition technology.

WHAT: The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism will hold a hearing on Wednesday entitled, “Always Watching: Flock’s Nationwide AI Surveillance Network.” Testifying at this hearing will be privacy and surveillance expert Chad Marlow, a senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. Marlow will detail how automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) like Flock are used to violate our rights, discuss the growing bipartisan movement against these creepy cameras, and underscore that the best privacy protection is to ban ALPRs altogether. Marlow’s testimony comes as people across the country come together to oppose these cameras and urge their elected officials to get rid of them. The Institute for Justice has cataloged more than 200 incidents of ALPR abuse, including stalking, wrongful stops and detentions, non-law enforcement use, and other types of misconduct. Since the beginning of 2026, over 200 cities have terminated their contracts with Flock and other ALPR companies and that number keeps growing. In August, cities terminated their contracts at a rate of more than three per day. WHEN: Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. ET WHO: Chad Marlow, Senior Policy Counsel, ACLU Benn Jordan, Cybersecurity Engineer Lindsey Isaacs, Wrongfully Accused Driver Alasdair Whitney, Legislative Counsel, Institute for Justice The Honorable Ross Teeple, Sheriff for Pinal County WHERE: Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 562 *Livestream can be found here. Chad will be available for questions and interviews following the hearing. Please reach out to Allegra Harpootlian with any requests.

Oregon law enforcement, without a warrant, installed surveillance cameras on two telephone poles near Petitioner’s home and recorded activity there for a month. The State argues that police can continuously surveil our most private spaces—our homes—without judicial oversight. The ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and State Supreme Court Initiative, alongside the ACLU of Oregon and the Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, filed an amicus brief arguing that police were required to obtain a warrant before conducting the extensive pole-camera surveillance at issue this case.

WASHINGTON — The Senate will take a procedural vote on the Clarity Act today, which includes a provision that would give companies a free pass to experiment on “AI test projects” without transparency or oversight. The American Civil Liberties Union argues that this is unneeded both because of how fast artificial intelligence is already growing, and also because of the harm it could cause to individuals’ rights. “Companies have plenty of freedom to do basic research on AI. But they shouldn’t have the freedom to use the American people as guinea pigs by subjecting them to harmful experiments that violate existing laws meant to protect people,” said Jina John, senior policy counsel on AI at the ACLU. “At the very moment that AI leaders are warning of catastrophic risks and urging Congress to regulate AI, Congress must not pass any law that would endanger people’s rights and liberties for the sake of AI experimentation.” Section 509 of the bill would establish a scheme for companies to seek waivers from any regulation from a financial regulator, including those related to privacy, security, consumer protection, and civil rights. That means companies could conduct AI experiments that risk exposing consumers’ financial data or be used to develop products that make decisions about lending, housing, and other important areas without providing notice about adverse actions or considering the potential for discrimination, all without oversight. The ACLU and a coalition of other rights groups recently sent a letter to Congress outlining the dangers of this provision for privacy rights and the right to be free from discrimination in key economic transactions.