Can you ask that all surveillance be turned off and then rely on that?

https://fox11online.com/news/local/very-serious-privacy-invasion-american-civil-liberties-union-aclu-analyst-green-bays-audio-surveillance-microphone-eric-genrich-jay-stanly-andre-jacque-bill-galvin-joanne-bungert

'Very serious privacy invasion': ACLU analyst on Green Bay's audio surveillance

A senior official with the American Civil Liberties Union tells FOX 11 audio surveillance at Green Bay's city hall is unlike anything he's heard of before.

“This is the first sort of city hall or political location that I've heard doing something like this,” said Jay Stanly, a senior policy analyst for the ACLU in Washington D.C., who has been with the nonprofit since five weeks before 9/11.

City officials say microphones were put on the hallway ceilings on the first and second levels, outside the city clerk’s office, the city council chambers, and the mayor’s office within the past two years due to threatening interactions involving members of the public and staff.

… “We have millions of video surveillance cameras all around this country and almost none of them have microphones on them and it's because wiretapping laws, federal and state wiretapping laws, make it very legally difficult to record audio conversations in public,” said Stanly.

There are no signs at city hall warning people of the audio recording devices. Some city council members were surprised and upset when they first learned about the devices during Tuesday’s city council meeting.

“To have a recording device that people might not be aware of, at such a location, is a serious threat to privacy and completely unjustified,” said Stanly.

State law requires one party in a private conversation must consent to the communication being recorded.

At last, Texas?

https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2023/02/09/texas-state-representative-introduces-comprehensive-state-privacy-bill-draft/

Texas State Representative Introduces Comprehensive State Privacy Bill Draft

On February 6, 2023, Texas State Representative Giovanni Capriglione submitted H.B. 1844, a comprehensive privacy bill modeled after the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”). The bill could make Texas the sixth U.S. state to enact major privacy legislation, following California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut. Although the bill closely follows the VCDPA, it departs from the Virginia law in several key areas, most notably in the definition of “personal data” and its applicability.