On Wednesday, July 15, 2026, during the formal meeting of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, two citizens stood and placed the Board on formal notice. They spoke not with slogans, but with the Constitution, Arizona statutes, and a clear demand for accountability.
All five supervisors were present: Supervisor Mark Stewart joining remotely, Supervisors Thomas Galvin, Debbie Lesko, Steve Gallardo, and Chair Kate Brophy McGee in the chamber.
Roger Maib: Constitutional Rights Belong to Every Person
Roger Maib opened by grounding his remarks in the foundational protections every Maricopa County resident holds:
“Constitutional rights belong to every person in Maricopa County. The Fourth Amendment protects the people from unreasonable searches and seizures. Arizona Constitution goes even further. Article 2, Section 8 states, ‘No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs or his home invaded without authority of law.’ These protections exist for ordinary law-abiding citizens.”
He then connected those words to the reality of daily life. On his hour-and-a-half drive to the meeting, he said his rights were violated repeatedly by the same Flock Safety cameras he would pass again on the way home. He quoted Flock’s own public materials describing a nationwide-scale system that processes “enormous amounts of license plate information” and provides agencies with “powerful search and information sharing capabilities.”
Maib closed with a direct warning tied to the Board’s recent court history:
“Board, so far you are showing yourself to be unwise to continue forcing the courts to force you to comply. It would be wise if you don’t continue in what the Arizona Superior Court accuses you of, which is power grabbing, gamesmanship, and shenanigans. Stop your unlawful and unconstitutional disturbance of our privacy.”
This language echoes the Superior Court’s April 2026 findings of unlawful usurpation of authority and the Arizona Supreme Court’s subsequent ruling that the Board acted improperly in the election administration dispute.
Lauri Baroni: Formal Notice on Withheld Surveillance Footage
Laurie Baroni followed and placed the Board on formal legal notice regarding multiple denied public records requests. She invoked the classic principle: notice to principal is notice to agent, and notice to agent is notice to principal.
She stated that more than nine public records requests seeking limited surveillance footage from the Board of Supervisors facility itself continue to be withheld under asserted “security concerns.” Citizens, she emphasized, should never have to fear for their safety when they walk into the building to exercise their constitutional rights.
Baroni demanded that the Board identify the specific legal authority or exemption supporting the different treatment of these requests and provide formal responses to each under Arizona’s Public Records Law (A.R.S. §§ 39-121, 39-121.01, and 39-121.02). She further placed the County on notice to preserve all related records—surveillance footage, metadata, communications, retention records, and decision documents—because continued withholding carries legal consequences.
Why This Matters
These were not casual comments. They were formal notices entered into the public record. One addressed the mass surveillance infrastructure that tracks ordinary citizens’ movements across Maricopa County. The other addressed the County’s own refusal to release limited footage of the very facility where citizens come to petition their government.
Both point to the same underlying issue: when government expands its capacity to watch the people while simultaneously restricting the people’s ability to watch the government, the balance of a free society is inverted.
It Is Our Duty has previously documented the scale of the Flock Safety ALPR network operating under a multi-year, multi-million-dollar county contract. The privacy concerns raised in that reporting—nationwide data sharing, limited statutory guardrails, and mission creep—were given a human face and a constitutional frame on July 15.
A Call Rooted in Righteousness
Scripture is clear about the character required of those who hold authority. “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream” (Amos 5:24). Leaders are not given power to invent new privileges for themselves or to treat the private affairs of citizens as open territory. They are given power to uphold the law equally and to walk in the light.
When citizens must repeatedly demand that public officials simply obey the Constitution and the Public Records Law, something has gone wrong. The remedy is not silence. The remedy is persistent, peaceful, lawful insistence that those in office remember whom they serve.
The video of these formal notices is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zre03kpglmI
Citizens of Maricopa County retain the right—and the duty—to continue placing truth on the public record.
