“It’s a scary mass surveillance machine,” EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told ChicoSol, noting California Attorney General Rob Bonta has called other cities out for the same kind of illegal data sharing. “So it’s pretty clear that Chico’s in violation of the law.” https://chicosol.org/2026/07/25/chico-pd-granted-ice-border-patrol-access-to-its-alpr-data/