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ACLU and EFF ask Wisconsin Supreme Court to require warrants for ALPR database searches
On Oct. 14, 2026, the ACLU of Wisconsin and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a petition for an original action in the Wisconsin Supreme Court on behalf of the Wisconsin Council of Churches and a Green Bay pastor. They ask the court to rule that Article I, Section 11 of the Wisconsin Constitution treats retrospective searches of automated license-plate reader databases as searches that generally require a judicial warrant (absent a recognized exception). Named respondents are Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay, which operate ALPR networks that have included Flock Safety cameras along with other vendors such as Axon and Genetec. The filing seeks a declaratory judgment; the court has not yet decided whether to take the case or ruled on the merits. As of publication, Flock Safety had not issued a public response to this petition in the sources we reviewed.
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