San Diego Police Admit License Plate Reader Data Breach in Early Days of Program

San Diego police admit license plate reader data breach in early days of program

A smart streetlight in La Jolla. (Photo courtesy of the City) The San Diego Police Department’s automated license plate recognition database was searched nearly 13,000 times during the early weeks of its implementation in 2023 and 2024, a concern many had leading up to the city’s adoption of the technology. Privacy advocates’ alarm stemmed from the potential for data breaches and cross-agency data sharing from automated license plate readers, of…

California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol – The Markup

LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to federal agencies A line of cars outside the County of Riverside Registrar of Voters office in Riverside on Nov. 5, 2024. Photo by Jules Hotz for CalMattersers Law enforcement agencies across Southern California violated state law more than 100 times last month by sharing information from automated license plate readers with fe…

Charlottesville Police have paused use of Peregrine software, not sharing Flock data

Earlier this year, members of City Council expressed concern about the use of software to help Charlottesville Police Department analyze crime data. The city was to have received $150,000 from the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services as part of Attorney General Jason Miyares’ Operation Ceasefire program. Charlottesville Police Chief Michael Kochis told Council that his department will not use the Peregrine software. “We’re not going …