Be Our Guest: Jason Kunkel | August 16, 2026

Our Take

The Lawton Town Crier's sit-down with Ward 2 candidate Jason Kunkel is a City Hall introduction piece — the kind of low-key local media moment that rarely mentions surveillance policy directly. But that's exactly why it matters. City council races like this one are where decisions about Flock Safety contracts, ALPR data-sharing agreements, and police department budgets actually get made, usually with little public scrutiny and even less press coverage than a mayoral race gets.

We don't know where Kunkel stands on automated license plate readers because, from what's been described, the interview doesn't say. That's the point worth flagging: candidates get elected to city councils all over the country without ever being asked whether they support blanketing their town in license-plate cameras that log every driver's movements and often feed that data into regional and national sharing networks. If you're in Lawton, or anywhere with a council race on the ballot, that's a question worth putting directly to the people asking for your vote.

Credit to the Lawton Town Crier for giving local voters a look at who's running. Our ask is simple — use moments like this to push candidates on record about ALPR deployment and oversight. Check our camera map to see what's already watching your streets, and visit our take-action page for tools to raise the issue before the next vote is cast.