Liberty Over Surveillance ★ Project

A National Project, Built Locally

State Chapters

Surveillance contracts are signed in city halls and county courthouses. So that is where this project works: one national standard, carried by neighbors in every state.

The Model

What the Project Holds, What a Chapter Does

The national project holds

A state chapter works

  • The local contracts: which agencies use ALPRs, who pays, what the terms say.
  • The local officials: a verified contact directory and who signs the renewals.
  • The local record: public-records requests, bill tracking, and a meeting calendar.
  • The local people: organizing meetings, volunteers, and public comment at council.

What a chapter is, legally: a volunteer civic-education and constitutional-privacy organizing group. A person may lawfully organize one without incorporating anything. Chapters never claim 501(c)(3) status, incorporation, or any official status unless it is actually true - and none of that is required to research, educate, meet, and speak.

Active Chapters

Where We Are Organized

Oklahoma

The founding chapter and the project's active front: a full camera inventory, the OKC contract fight, verified contacts, and the state legal hook.
Visit the Oklahoma chapter

Your state

Every chapter starts with one person who decides the tracking should be on the government, not the governed. The steps are below.
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Start a Chapter

The Launch Process, Step by Step

  1. Identify your jurisdiction and issue. Which city, county, or agency runs (or is considering) ALPRs where you live? Who signs the contract, and when does it renew?
  2. Build the state page and a verified fact sheet. Every claim sourced and dated to primary records, to the project's verification standard, before anything circulates.
  3. Announce an organizing meeting. Public, free, and open to everyone.
  4. Reserve an indoor public space. See the venue list and reservation script below.
  5. Take privacy-respecting sign-ups. Collect only what people volunteer, use it only to contact them, never sell or share it, delete on request - the same standard as our form.
  6. Find one or two dependable coordinators. Consistency beats charisma.
  7. Set a recurring schedule. A standing meeting people can plan around.
  8. Build the chapter's working tools. An official-contact directory, a records-request log, a bill tracker, and an action calendar.
  9. Adopt the conduct standards. Peaceful, lawful, factual, respectful. No threats, no harassment, no doxxing - ever.

Where to meet

In rough order of preference:

  • Public libraries - the best neutral first option. Library meeting rooms operate under neutral rules: available to civic groups on equal terms, without the library endorsing anyone's viewpoint.
  • Community centers and city recreation rooms
  • College and university meeting rooms
  • Union halls
  • Faith-community fellowship rooms
  • Veterans' and civic club halls
  • Coffee-shop side rooms
  • Private homes, for small early meetings

The reservation script

Word for word works fine:

"Hello, my name is [Name]. I am organizing a free, noncommercial public civic-education meeting through Liberty Over Surveillance Project - [State] Chapter. We expect about [10-25] people for roughly [90] minutes to discuss constitutional privacy and local license plate reader policy. The meeting is peaceful, open to the public, and nonpartisan - we are not affiliated with any political party, campaign, or government agency. Could I reserve a meeting room for [date and time]? We will follow all room rules and leave the space as we found it."

Every chapter carries the venue disclaimer wherever it meets: Independent civic-education and constitutional-privacy project. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any government agency, library, venue, police department, or political party. Meeting in a public room does not imply the venue's endorsement.

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