Butler Privacy Project
About Butler Privacy Project
A resident-led effort to bring transparency and accountability to license plate reader cameras and other local surveillance in Liberty Township and Butler County, Ohio.
What we're doing
We're asking the Liberty Township Trustees to remove the township-funded Flock cameras. Disclosing the records and pausing the cameras are steps toward that, not a stopping point. We work through public records, public meetings, and a resident petition, not rumor or confrontation.
Butler Privacy Project seeks the removal of automated license plate reader infrastructure from Liberty Township and Butler County. Restrictions on data sharing, retention, and access may reduce immediate harm, but they don't eliminate the risk created by maintaining a system that continuously records residents' movements. We treat any such restriction as an interim protection, not a substitute for removal, and partial reforms don't end our campaign.
We support real investigations and legitimate public safety. What we push back on is a system that tracks everyone's movements by default. Removal is achievable: contracts like this one have already been rescinded in dozens of communities, and sustained public pressure can do the same here.
We're independent residents. We aren't affiliated with any government agency, political party, or camera company.