Max Isaacs is director of technology law and policy at the Policing Project at NYU School of Law. His work focuses on emerging policing technologies and civil rights. Before joining the project, he clerked for two federal judges and was a civil rights fellow at Lambda Legal. He earned a music degree at Purchase College Conservatory and a law degree at NYU School of Law, where he was on the Law Review. His clerkships were with Fourth Circuit Judge Diana Gribbon Motz and Southern District of New York Judge Lorna Schofield.
Isaacs endorses requiring probable cause and a warrant before license-plate tracking. This is a conditional position on how the surveillance may operate.
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.
Flock Safety said its August 2026 changes would shorten default data retention and strengthen controls on police searches. The ACLU said most measures remain inadequate and questioned whether Evidence Mode could preserve too much data.
