Grants as Surveillance Leverage

A congressional strategy to curb mass‑collection surveillance: condition federal grants on local and state limits on retention, continuous collection, or sharing of automated location histories (for example, automated license‑plate reader datasets). If enacted, such grant‑conditional rules can rapidly change policing tech adoption nationwide without needing a complete criminal‑procedure doctrinal shift. — Shows how budgetary leverage becomes a fast, governance‑scale tool to constrain pervasive location tracking and reshape local policing technology choices.