Lauren Pinkston is an independent candidate for governor of Tennessee in 2026 and a former educator. She taught elementary school and later business at Lipscomb University. She also co-founded Kindred Exchange and worked on employment programs for survivors of human trafficking. She earned a BA at Freed-Hardeman University in 2009 and a PhD in international family and community studies at Clemson University in 2019. Her fieldwork included developing businesses in Southeast Asia to employ survivors of trafficking and political imprisonment.
We have documented 1 statement by Lauren Pinkston, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: Independent candidate for Tennessee governor
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Statement summary
Pinkston supports limited ALPR use for investigations with short retention, verified matches, case-linked searches, and controlled interagency sharing.
“Tennesseans should be free from a surveillance state.”
Networked automated license-plate cameras can assemble searchable records of vehicle movements. Candidates and officials disagree over whether to ban the systems, keep them with limits, or defend them as investigative tools. This tracker separates outright bans from narrower restrictions.
