Former Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels set the precedent for the installation of 95 surveillance cameras across the county when his department purchased a mobile version of the automatic license plate readers and tried it out at the county fair in secret five years ago.
“During a five-hour period, there were probably about 500 hits,” Daniels told a News4Jax reporter doing a story about surveillance technology. News4Jax has given Clay News & Views permission to republish its May 2018 report, a shortened version of which can be viewed below.
The story suggested the new technology could become so invasive that it would be almost as if everyone’s car came with a GPS tracker monitored by police. The story quoted the American Civil Liberties Union:
It leaves a breadcrumb trail of every place you visit and when. A federal appeals court said in a 2010 ruling on GPS tracking, “A person who knows all of another’s travels can determine whether he is a weekly churchgoer, a heavy drinker, a regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular persons or political groups’.”