Sacramento Bee OpEd: California says license plate data is protected. Flock cameras prove otherwise

The proliferation of ALPRs — Automatic License Plate Recognition cameras — represents another step in our country’s quickening march toward a total lack of privacy. The use of these cameras promotes law enforcement’s reliance on unproven technology that is incompatible with a free society. Communities across the nation, and right here in Sacramento County, must organize to remove these cameras from their streets, or live with the consequences of false reports and false detainments, and even stalking by law enforcement — all incidents that have already occurred.

Senate Bill 1013, also known as the Automated License Plate Recognition Data Accountability Act, by Sen. Sabrina Cervantes, D-Riverside, would only allow law enforcement to keep data past the 30-day limit if the license plate is on an authorized “hot list” which includes stolen vehicles, a car that matches an AMBER or missing person call, if the vehicle is on a wanted list or if the data is in the evidence file of an active investigation.

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