anon is pissed! Pleads to Patriots for HELP!
Dear Governor Hobbs,
As a pen-pal "friend" to several incarcerated individuals, the recent DOC policy change of DO 914 (Dec. 15, 2025 effective Apr. 2, 2026) to digitally scan and upload incoming cards and letters addressed to inmates, even inmates at the lowest custody class level, expresses a clear failure of Wardens working under the DEI hiring policies of the DOC, to suppress contraband from entering the prison facilities.
It is a violation of my constitutional right to association under the First Amendment. The blanket scanning policy lacks specificity, failing to justify why minimal custody class inmates require such invasive monitoring and impedes private correspondence. The DOC has not served a compelling state interest to justify using this Third Party service.
It is a violation of my constitutional right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause under the Fourth Amendment as it lacks individualized suspicion or proportionality and applies this mass surveillance of communications indiscriminately rather than targeting legitimate contraband risks.
It is a violation of my constitutional right against seizing private property for public use under the Fifth Amendment. By converting physical letters into digital assets, the DOC effectively appropriates private correspondence for government use without compensation. Implied consent under duress is not valid consent. Policies that coercively transfer private property are illegal!
It is a violation of my constitutional right that abridges the privileges or immunities of citizens and equal protection under the law under Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment by subjecting all correspondence to unwarranted scrutiny. This DOC inmate mail policy ends my ability to provide official complaint forms and access to legal materials to benefit an inmate where such forms and materials are not supplied under DO 802. Legal instructions arriving in a personal letter can now be deemed contraband at the discretion of a reviewer.
It is one thing to open a personal letter for inspection but forcefully storing and transmitting personal letters electronically by anyone other than the addressee is illegal, whether consent is implied, coerced or condoned, especially when the sender objects to such actions. In this case, consent is coerced under duress.
I object to this policy action by the DOC to digitally scan and upload incoming cards and letters addressed to inmates because of the constitutional violations addressed above. Please use your office to immediately rescind the DOC’s scanning policy, purge all unlawfully retained digital copies of correspondence and provide written assurance that future policies will comply with constitutional safeguards.
The State of Arizona IS NOT a Providence of Canada NOR is it a State under the rule of China. Please STOP treating the people of this State as though it were. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Respectfully,
name redacted
A Citizen of AZ and registered voter
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