Candidate survey · US Representative FL-4 (F)

Mike Sell

Us House of Representative (FL-D4)

answered october 12, 2026

PART 1: YES / NO POSITIONS

1. Do you support ending the warrantless collection of American citizens' data and communications under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)?
Yes
2. Will you oppose any legislation or executive directive that mandates tech companies to build "backdoors" into end-to-end encrypted messaging services for law enforcement?
Yes
3. Do you support a complete ban on law enforcement agencies purchasing Americans' private location, browsing, and personal data from commercial data brokers without a judicial warrant?
Yes
4. Do you support a full legislative repeal of the bulk data collection authorities originally granted under the USA PATRIOT Act?
Yes
5. Do you support a total ban on the use of biometric facial recognition surveillance technologies by local law enforcement and municipal agencies in public spaces?
Yes
6. Will you vote to prohibit or dismantle localized networks of automated license plate readers that log, track, and store the daily travel histories of citizens who are not suspected of a crime?
Yes
7. Do you oppose the integration of local private security cameras into centralized, real-time police monitoring networks without explicit, case-by-case owner consent?
Yes
8. Will you vote against the funding or utilization of predictive policing software that uses algorithmic data modeling to preemptively target specific neighborhoods?
Yes
9. Do you support a mandatory local ordinance requiring police departments to obtain explicit city council approval and hold public hearings before deploying any new surveillance technology?
Yes

PART 2: DETAILED POLICY STANCE

10. The Balance of Power: Where do you draw the line between a government's duty to protect public safety and its constitutional obligation to respect the privacy of its citizens? Please explain your overarching political stance on mass surveillance, and justify why you believe your approach aligns with the core principles of a free society.

I draw the line at a warrant. Government has a real duty to keep people safe, and it can do that by going to a judge, showing probable cause, and naming who it wants to watch. What it cannot do in a free country is watch everyone and sort out the innocent later. That is the moment public safety turns into the kind of search the Fourth Amendment was written to stop. As we've already seen, a camera network or a data pipeline built with the ability to track everyone will end up tracking everyone, no matter the promises made. Watching all of us at once does not make us safer, it buries the few real threats under data on millions of people who did nothing wrong, and it threatens every Americans sense of security before they speak, worship, or gather. My standard is simple: Get a warrant. Gather data on the people you have reason to suspect, not on the whole community.

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Mike Sell

signed october 12, 2026, 3:10 pm edt

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