{"id":242187,"date":"2026-05-09T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/letter-to-the-editor-colorado-doesnt-respect-its-residents-right-to-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T05:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:50:06","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-colorado-doesnt-respect-its-residents-right-to-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/letter-to-the-editor-colorado-doesnt-respect-its-residents-right-to-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Colorado doesn\u2019t respect its residents\u2019 right to privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-colorado-doesnt-respect-its-residents-right-to-privacy\/\">Letter to the editor: Colorado doesn\u2019t respect its residents\u2019 right to privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-colorado-doesnt-respect-its-residents-right-to-privacy\/\">https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-colorado-doesnt-respect-its-residents-right-to-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-09 05:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.summitdaily.com\">www.summitdaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine changing your normal routine by driving an alternate route to get to work when you are suddenly pulled over by the police and interrogated because you\u2019re displaying \u201csuspicious\u201d activity. Well, imagine no longer because the decision by Colorado\u2019s government overlords to \u201csit out\u201d on the opportunity to pass a bill (Senate Bill 70) regulating their Big Brother-inspired Flock license plate reader system will make every Colorado driver subject to police detainment for displaying suspicious behavior \u2014 or for any other purpose the surveillance state considers a \u201csafety\u201d issue \u2014 without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Equally concerning, however, is how other government agencies (such as ICE) will have access to the information obtained by the Flock system in Colorado without a warrant. We had a real-life example of this situation in Loveland nearly a year ago (June 2025) when it was discovered that the Loveland Police Department (LPD) had admitted to allowing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to access their Flock Safety account and how they used the LPD Flock to conduct searches in the national law enforcement database, listing \u201cICE\u201d as a reason for searches \u2014 despite the fact that Colorado law prohibits local agencies from sharing information with ICE without a warrant or subpoena.<\/p>\n<p>But apparently, warrants and other pesky Fourth Amendment protections are a few of the reasons government power brokers looking for ways to protect their power object to SB 70; the bill contained a provision prohibiting law enforcement and other officials from obtaining information collected by Flock on an individual in most circumstances unless they had a valid warrant or the person\u2019s consent. It also would have prevented sharing Flock data with out-of-state jurisdictions and would have required agencies to keep a record of when they access the database.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the assault on liberty and the ever-growing surveillance state,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-colorado-doesnt-respect-its-residents-right-to-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the editor: Colorado doesn\u2019t respect its residents\u2019 right to privacy https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-colorado-doesnt-respect-its-residents-right-to-privacy\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/swiftmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/mountain.swiftcom.com\/images\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/22223352\/WebPhoto_LetterToEditor.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242189,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242187\/revisions\/242189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}