When Spears requested that her father, Jamie Spears, undergo random alcohol testing, she was shut down. Because of Jamie's history with alcohol abuse when she was growing up, Jamie was asked by the court to undergo regular alcohol testing as her conservator. However, the singer believed he was still drinking, so her lawyer requested that the testing be done at random. According to court documents, Judge Goetz replied, "Who is she to be demanding that of anybody?" and brushed off the request.
Security installed an audio recording device into Spears's bedroom. It is illegal to record people's conversations without their consent in California and it's unclear if the court approved of this. The recordings captured over 180 hours of audio, including the singer's conversations with her boyfriend and children.
Despite the fact that a conservator cannot force a conservatee into entering a mental health treatment facility against their will, the New York Times obtained text messages written by Spears that prove the singer involuntarily checked into a mental health facility in 2019. In the texts, Spears allegedly stated that she felt as if she couldn't leave and that her lawyer at the time was working against her. Spears's team even orchestrated paparazzi pictures of her and her now-fiancé Sam Asghari leaving the mental health facility after fans began making claims that she was being held against her will.
As a result, when the #FreeBritney movement first began, it was heavily investigated. Yemini was reportedly so worried about the movement that he allegedly had undercover investigators placed within the crowds at #FreeBritney rallies to talk to fans and ID who they were.