Retired school teacher Michael Moore’s daily drives around San Francisco to drop off his children and go to shops are not suspicious and would not be interesting to watch. Yet because of the city’s system of license plate readers, his law-abiding movements are being tracked by an unconstitutional and “Orwellian” surveillance network, he claims in a lawsuit.
Moore’s complaint, filed Monday in San Francisco’s federal court, is the first of its kind challenging the city’s use of license plate reading cameras manufactured and operated by Flock Safety.
The lawsuit claims that the use of Flock cameras constitutes an illegal search and violates his 4th Amendment right to privacy and association. The city has also broken California law barring out-of-state law enforcement from using such data, Moore’s lawsuit alleges…