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  • When Williamson County Policy Replaced the Law

    How Williamson County Operated Above Texas and the U.S. Constitution By LeRoy Nellis Executive Summary While detained pretrial, I learned a hard truth: inside Williamson County Jail, internal “policy” routinely overrode Texas law and the U.S. Constitution. What governed daily life wasn’t statute, case law, or due process—it was an administrative rulebook enforced without transparency,…

  • 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…

  • Marked Since 2019: How Entry Into the NCIC/TCIC System Turned My Life Into a Surveillance Zone

    By LeRoy Nellis January 2026 In 2019, I entered the NCIC/TCIC law-enforcement database system. I did not understand then that this entry would mark the beginning of a prolonged assault on my life, my livelihood, and my constitutional rights. What followed was not due process. It was disruption. Since that point, my life has been…

  • Pattern of Targeting: How NCIC/Securus Database Flags, Williamson County Excessive Force, and Narrative Laundering Became a Closed Loop

    Disclosure & Scope. This article documents a pattern of events as experienced by me and supported by contemporaneous records, media artifacts, and observable outcomes. There are numerous constitutional, statutory, and procedural violations associated with these events. Not all violations are listed here. This article focuses on the pattern—how separate acts connect into a self-reinforcing system…

  • Are Jail Communication Apps Using AI and Biometric Surveillance to Harass Pre-Trial Detainees and Their Families?

    By LeRoy NellisAustin, Texas Pre-trial detainees in the United States are legally presumed innocent. Yet they are often subjected to some of the most technologically aggressive monitoring systems deployed anywhere in American society. What is less understood—and far more concerning—is that the families and friends of these detainees may also be swept into advanced surveillance…

  • Request for Independent Security Review — NCIC Jail Communication App (Public-Interest Inquiry)

    security@eff.org,info@eff.org,tips@propublica.org,security@themarkup.org,tips@theintercept.com,disclosures@citizenlab.ca,contact@citizenlab.ca,security@aclu.org,tips@wired.com,security@mozilla.org,bugcrowd@bugcrowd.com,disclosures@hackerone.com,security@torproject.org,press@torproject.org,security@wikimedia.org,info@openprivacy.ca,contact@privacyinternational.org,security@openrights.org,tips@bellingcat.com Good afternoon, I am reaching out to request an independent, good-faith security and privacy review of the NCIC jail communications platform (mobile application and associated backend services) from a public-interest and civil-liberties perspective. The concern is straightforward and narrow: Whether the NCIC application engages in surveillance, data harvesting, tracking, or secondary data use that…

  • isn’t legal…