U.S. Congress legislation · 119th Congress
HB10606: FLAFO Act
Status: In committee, September 24, 2026
To prohibit the use of automated license plate reader surveillance systems by governmental entities, and for other purposes.
What the bill says
To prohibit the use of automated license plate reader surveillance systems by governmental entities, and for other purposes.
From the introduced text, September 24, 2026:
A BILL To prohibit the use of automated license plate reader surveillance systems by governmental entities, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Facilitating Liberty and Accountability for Flock Observations Act or the FLAFO Act . SECTION 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution enshrines the right of the American people to be secured against any unreasonable searches and seizures. (2) Automated license plate reader technology, including those provided by Flock Safety and other similar enterprises, have expanded from systems initially designed to identify vehicles associated with criminal activity into large-scale surveillance mechanisms capable of collecting some of the American people's most sensitive location information. (3) Certain automated license plate reader systems continuously collect information on every vehicle traveling on public roads and neighboring private property, to include not just license plate numbers, but vehicle make, model, color, and other distinguishing characteristics. (4) Such systems incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze and process such data into an aggregated and centralized form, thus permitting licensed users to reconstruct an individual's movements, associations, and patterns of life without any individualized suspicion. Lacking adequate safeguards, such a surveillance system may assist a government official in abridging certain constitutionally protected rights of the American people, to include visits …
Sponsors
- Greg Steube (R, HD-FL-17) · primary sponsor
- Anna Luna (R, 13)
Latest actions
- : Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- : Introduced in House
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Common questions
- What is HB10606?
- HB10606 is a bill in Congress (119th Congress): FLAFO Act.
- What does HB10606 do?
- In its own words: To prohibit the use of automated license plate reader surveillance systems by governmental entities, and for other purposes.
- What is the status of HB10606?
- In committee as of September 24, 2026. Latest action: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (September 24, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB10606?
- Greg Steube (R, HD-FL-17), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB10606?
- On the Congress website: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10606
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