Tag: attorney-client-privilege

  • Formal Letters to U.S. Senators Regarding Securus and Pre-Trial Detainee Abuse

    By LeRoy Nellis Austin, Texas January 24, 2026 The following are formal mailing letters sent to U.S. Senators who have publicly criticized Securus Technologies or the prison telecommunications industry. These letters document concerns regarding the use of jail communication and surveillance systems as tools of coercion against pre-trial detainees and their families. I have already…

  • AI-Enabled Surveillance, Attorney-Client Interference, and Retaliatory Digital Interference

    Pattern-or-Practice Civil Rights Violations in County Detention AI-Enabled Surveillance, Attorney-Client Interference, and Retaliatory Digital Interference Prepared by: LeRoy Nellis Austin, Texas United States Citizen Date: January 8, 2026 U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Special Litigation Section (CRIPA) 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 The Honorable Ron Wyden United States Senate 221 Dirksen…

  •    Williamson County Sheriff’s Office / NCIC / Securus — Domestic Black Site.

    Williamson County Jail Torture, Harassment, and Surveillance Program NOTE: This is a live document and may change at any time. “I personally endured these torture methods during my 336 days in solitary confinement. This isn’t metaphor—it’s lived reality. Every restraint, every humiliation, every hour of sensory deprivation was designed to erase me. But I refused…

  • The Digital Black Site: When Law Enforcement Outsourced the Constitution

    There was a time when constitutional violations required human effort. A bad cop. A corrupt prosecutor. A forged document. Today, the system doesn’t need villains—it needs vendors. Across the United States, law enforcement agencies have quietly built what can only be described as a digital black site—an ecosystem where artificial intelligence, private data contractors, and…

  • Dear FBI Civil Rights Division,

    My name is LeRoy Nellis II, and I am a Texas resident and former detainee of the Williamson County Jail in Georgetown, Texas. I am writing to submit a formal civil-rights complaint regarding the use of AI-enabled surveillance and data-integration systems operating within that facility under an Intergovernmental Service Agreement (IGSA) with the U.S. Marshals…