Third Amendment: Home Autonomy and State Use of Private Infrastructure

Republicans often defend the home against government intrusion in constitutional rhetoric, but can become permissive when the intrusion is framed as border security: in 2025, Customs and Border Protection obtained undisclosed access to local license-plate-reader networks in Washington state that local police had installed for ordinary public-safety purposes, then used that access for immigration enforcement. Democrats often defend consumer privacy and civil liberties, but can underweight how the same public-safety partnerships convert private-adjacent infrastructure into government access: California's attorney general sued the city of El Cajon in 2025 to stop it from sharing its license-plate-reader data with more than a hundred out-of-state and federal agencies in violation of state law, after the city adopted the vendor's camera network with little review of who could ultimately query it. The Innovation Party's delta is to name the shared inconsistency and make consent, law, compensation, and review the rule for both parties, whichever framing is used to justify quiet access.