Automated license plate cameras were sold to towns across America as a way to catch car thieves and find missing kids. What those towns bought is an AI-powered dragnet monitoring people’s everyday activity and enabling stalking and other forms of police abuse.

Today we talk with IJ investigative reporter Chris Ingraham and Assistant Director of Media Relations Dan King about the outrageous reality of automated license plate readers and what IJ is doing to stop warrantless mass surveillance on America’s streets.

If police destroyed your home while chasing a fugitive, would the government pay for the damage? All too often, the answer is no. A first-of-its-kind national study from the Institute for Justice set out to answer how often people ask for compensation when law enforcement damages their property, and how often the government says no.

I’m Kim Norberg of the Institute for Justice, joined by co-host Keith Neely. Today we’re digging into IJ’s new report and a couple outrageous cases of innocent people left to bear the cost of public safety alone. We’re joined by data scientist Jason Tiezzi and IJ attorney Jeff Redfern.

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Millions of Americans face serious legal problems every year without a lawyer—often because the legal system has made help too expensive and too hard to find. As a result, they face the legal system on their own or give up entirely, often missing important rights or obligations they didn’t know they had. IJ’s new initiative, Counsel Unbound, is changing that by breaking the lawyer cartel.

Today we’re talking with IJ’s Director of Activism Jenny McDonald and Deputy Litigation Director Bob McNamara about why legal advice is speech, how lawyers created their own monopoly, and how IJ protects people who want to help others navigate the law.