Are you willing to live in a 24/7 surveillance state? Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using surveillance technologies to spy on, track and record the public. In Hawaii, police regularly employ an arsenal of ever- expanding surveillance tools, including automatic license plate readers, drones and explosion detection technology. The community deserves a say in how the government monitors us, if at all. We should know how footage of us is collected, stored, shared and destroyed. Hawaii’s Constitution guarantees the right to privacy, yet police have failed to show a compelling interest in violating that privacy for every planned use of surveillance technology.
