‘A Law-Abiding Citizen Trapped’ — Kansas Man Sues City Over Warantless Spy Cams

A Kansas privacy advocate is suing the City of Wichita over its warrantless Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) system, saying the spy cams violate the Kansas Constitution.Mason Grimmett, a long-time Wichita resident represented by the Kansas Justice Institute (KJI), filed the lawsuit in the Sedgwick County District Court Thursday, according to The Kansas Sentinel. The machinist, a member of Kansas’ Sunflower Privacy Alliance, is raising concerns about the government tracking, analyzing and storing his movements in a long-term database.The lawsuit “challenges the government’s indiscriminate and warrantless dragnet surveillance of anyone, and everyone, driving in the City of Wichita,” according to court documents. It accuses Wichita of using ALPRs for “continuously tracking, surveilling,