Every car that passes is photographed, catalogued down to the bumper sticker, and filed in a database thousands of agencies can search. Nobody has to accuse you of anything first. We are asking every candidate and officeholder in America to sign one pledge.
The Fourth Amendment exists because American colonists watched British officers walk through their doors carrying general warrants that named no suspect and described no crime. The writs of assistance did not accuse anyone of anything. They authorized the government to look, at anyone, at any time, for any reason or none.
The Framers thought that power dangerous enough to write the answer into the Constitution. A search must be particular. It must be justified. It must be approved by a judge who answers to the law rather than to the officer doing the asking.
This is not a hypothetical raised by people with vivid imaginations. An audit by the Illinois Secretary of State found that plate data collected in Illinois had been searched by out-of-state officials monitoring abortion and immigration. Officers have been caught running the system on people they knew personally. Federal agencies have reached into local camera networks that local taxpayers paid for and local officials never agreed to share.
Nobody voted for this. The infrastructure was sold as a way to recover stolen cars, and it became a nationwide tracking system that no legislature designed and no citizen consented to. The contracts were signed without public notice, the data flows to agencies nobody here authorized, and the record of who looked you up is not something you will ever be shown.
We are not naive about crime, and we are not hostile to the officers who fight it. Police have always been able to follow a suspect, photograph a vehicle, and build a case. What is new is not surveillance of the guilty. What is new is permanent, automated, suspicionless surveillance of the innocent, held on a private company's servers and searchable by people who will never have to explain themselves to a judge.
Some courts have upheld these systems. Some have not, and the question is still moving through the federal appellate courts. But an officeholder does not swear an oath to the most recent summary judgment order. The oath runs to the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment is a floor beneath which government may not go. It has never been a ceiling on what free people may demand of their own government.
Officeholders and candidates sign the pledge itself. Everyone else signs the demand that their representatives take it.
Your name appears on the public signer list once our team confirms your office. Nothing publishes automatically.
Every signature is verified by phone or official channel before publication.
Tell your representatives to sign it. We will send them your name and keep you posted on what they do.
We never sell your information.
Officeholders who have committed in writing. Every name confirmed directly.