Starting next year, California law enforcement agencies and companies using ALPR or LPR technology will be required by
SB 34 to make their policies more transparent to the public. The public must have easy access to the organization's A/LPR data collection policy. Information on how long the information is retained and the process by which the information was collected are both disclosure requirements for the data collector.
In the event a police database is breached and A/LPR data is compromised, the new law also creates a mechanism that allows those individuals whose data was revealed by the breach to sue the law enforcement agencies or companies responsible.
License plate readers have been in use for more than a decade in some jurisdictions, so this legislative advancement is being hailed as a coup by some
privacy advocates.
