Updates, Events & Timeline

📅 Updates, Events & Timeline

Instead of a formal email newsletter, this page collects major updates, public-records milestones, and community events related to MaryvillePrivacy.org.

🔍 Event Highlight: ALPRs & Fourth Amendment Privacy

The Institute for Justice is hosting a free online webinar titled
“The Open Road and the Watchful State: Automatic License Plate Readers and the Fight for Fourth Amendment Privacy.”

Date: December 9, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM ET
Format: Online webinar, hosted by IJ

This event covers legal battles, policy issues, and real-world use cases surrounding ALPRs — highly relevant to communities like Maryville and East Tennessee.

Institute for Justice webinar flyer on automatic license plate readers and Fourth Amendment privacy.

🔗 Event details on IJ.org

Timeline of Recent Activity

- November 2025 – Publication of Flock training materials on Multi-Geo and Convoy tools and how they can be used to build travel-history based stops.
- November 2025 – Launch of the Maryville Flock Whitelist / Ghost Vehicles page, documenting the City’s three-plate “Safe List / Exempt Vehicle List.”
- Ongoing – Tennessee Public Records Act (TPRA) requests to Maryville, Alcoa, and regional agencies regarding Flock cameras, data sharing, and proposed drone programs.
- Community projects – Plate-project outreach and other local efforts to help Maryville and East Tennessee residents understand how ALPR systems work in practice.

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