Letter to the Editor by James Clayton of Kootenai County
Today, Monday 10 March 2025 at 1200, I went into CDA to observe the CDA City Council Services Subcommittee where Chief White was scheduled to present the “Approval of Third-Party Agreement with Motorola for DEA API Access to ALPR Data.” In his statements to the subcommittee, I witnessed Chief White add the FBI to the agencies his department would be sharing data with.
I’m writing to make clear some of the astounding hypocrisy that I have witnessed existing in the greater CDA and Kootenai County areas. For the most part, I have spent my time living here minding my own business, observing and documenting, prepping and training as my military background has always led me to do. But, I’m coming to the conclusion that it may be time for more men, especially Veterans, to speak up forcefully. I have become exhausted by so called “strong women” and weak men. On both sides of the political spectrum.
Chief White stated that approving this agreement would help the CDAPD fight crime by seamlessly interfacing their data with the FBI and DEA. At the County level, the topic of ALPRs stirred up a lot of contention and false narratives, targeting Sheriff Norris, the county’s program, and the agreement with Motorola.
The Sheriff and the Policy he and his office laid out clearly states there will be no shared information with the Feds without due process. But this wasn’t good enough for the “strong women” of SSC (Stop Smart Cities a “grassroots organization”).
It is very clear to me that SSC’s opposition to the county’s program was a political hit job orchestrated by the people pushing Dan Wilson for Sheriff. How do I know this? Today, Chief White, for all intents and purposes probably the second most powerful Law Enforcement Entity in this area, just told us he plans to seamlessly share data with the Feds, in particular, the DEA and FBI. SSC was nowhere to be seen at this meeting. But they sure made their presence known with leftist-style disruptions at BOCC meetings and town halls put on by Sheriff Norris to inform people of how the county’s program works and how he intended to protect people’s privacy rights. The “strong women” of SSC worked up a lot of locals with false information and omissions, taking advantages of people’s ignorance, all in a bid to undermine probably the best Sheriff I’ve known in my fairly long and storied life.
There are a lot of bad people in this area with bad intent and agendas that do not further the true fight for Liberty and Freedom. I could spend all day laying out the individuals and organizations. But for today, I just want to point out the hypocrisy and corruption of Stop Smart Cities and its “strong” Dan Wilson women, the CDAPD and especially Chief White, the CDA City Council, and the CDA Press for their continued lies, misrepresentations, and general corruption.
I do not and will not respect any of the above mentioned people or organizations. Respect and trust are earned from men like me—without it you get nothing but contempt from me.
