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  • Algorithmic Harassment: How Williamson County Uses AI Calling Systems to Break People

    This is not spam. It is not a mistake. And it is not random. This article documents how the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, operating through jail-telecommunications and criminal justice data vendors Securus Technologies and NCIC-linked systems, is using artificial-intelligence-driven calling infrastructure to harass, exhaust, and destabilize individuals connected to detainees. The objective is not communication.…

  • 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…

  • How NCIC / Securus Is Allegedly Spying on People and Harvesting Their Data An Investigative Look at Forced Surveillance, Data Extraction, and Consent Collapse

    By LeRoy Nellis Austin, Texas January 2026 Executive Summary This article documents serious concerns and allegations that NCIC and Securus, a private correctional communications vendor, operates systems that function not merely as communication tools but as surveillance and data-harvesting platforms. These concerns arise from the structure of NCIC’s services, the absence of meaningful consent, and…

  • 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…

  • 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…