Sharilyn Ray
Role at the time: Independent candidate for governor of Kansas, in an emailed statement from her campaign
Statement summary
Sharilyn Ray's campaign for Kansas governor told Dispute Index by email that she would prohibit the use of Palantir Technologies and Flock Safety across every office and agency under the governor's authority and cancel existing contracts with them. It said mass surveillance is incompatible with Kansans' rights and that automated license plate readers are not the proper role of government.
“Dr. Sharilyn Ray will prohibit the use of Palantir Technologies and Flock Safety across every office and agency under the governor's authority. Existing contracts with these vendors will be canceled.”
Read the full email
Dr. Sharilyn Ray will prohibit the use of Palantir Technologies and Flock Safety across every office and agency under the governor's authority. Existing contracts with these vendors will be canceled. Mass surveillance is incompatible with the rights of the people of Kansas. Automated license plate readers and camera-based monitoring of ordinary citizens are not the proper role of government. Kansans should not be tracked simply for going about their daily lives. If anyone deserves greater scrutiny, it is not the public. Dr. Ray will fight for transparency in government, starting with the closed-door dealmaking between state officials and large corporations.
Why we used this label
The reference point is whether networked license-plate reader systems such as Flock should exist and be used. The campaign says Ray would prohibit Flock Safety across state agencies and cancel existing contracts, which rejects the network's use, so we labeled it Condemned with the Ban or remove step.