Rand Paul
Role at the time: U.S. senator from Kentucky
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Paul argued that warrants, rather than replacing Flock with another vendor, are needed to address networked plate-reader surveillance.
“We could cancel every Flock contract tomorrow, and the surveillance problem remains, because a competitor takes the contract the next day. The fix isn't a boycott of one vendor. It's a warrant requirement.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Rand Paul statement on Flock and warrant requirementsPost beginning We could cancel every Flock contract tomorrow
Paul argues that a warrant requirement, not cancelling one vendor's contracts, would address ALPR surveillance.
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He favors a legal limit on searches rather than treating removal of one vendor as a full solution.