The State Put a Sensor in the Apartment. It Knows When You Get Up at Night.

Concord, New Hampshire put private surveillance devices in public-housing apartments. The Concord Housing and Redevelopment Authority bought them from a company called Mînut. They record movement and sound inside the unit. The lawsuit says the system has already collected hundreds of millions of data points.

Refuse the device and you get fines, then an eviction threat. The price of a roof the government owns is a live feed of your bedroom and your bathroom schedule.

Tenants sued on September 2. The ACLU, ACLU of New Hampshire, and New Hampshire Legal Assistance say it violates the state constitution: Article 19 on unreasonable searches, and Article 2-b, the 2018 amendment that says the right to live free from government intrusion in private information is natural, essential, and inherent.

A lease is not a warrant. Public housing is still a home. If the state can wire the apartment because it holds the deed, every renter on a government program is one sensor away from a cop who knows when the lights go off.

ACLU