Report 2019-118 Recommendation Responses
Report 2019-118: Automated License Plate Readers: To Better Protect Individuals' Privacy, Law Enforcement Must Increase Its Safeguards for the Data It Collects (Release Date: February 2020)
Recommendation for Legislative Action
To better protect individual's privacy and to help ensure that local law enforcement agencies structure their ALPR programs in a manner that supports accountability for proper database use, the Legislature should amend state law to require Justice to develop and issue guidance to help local law enforcement agencies identify and evaluate the types of data they are currently storing in their ALPR systems. The guidance should include the necessary security requirements agencies should follow to protect the data in their ALPR systems.
Description of Legislative Action
AB 1076 (Kiley, 2021) would have required Justice to develop and issue guidance for local law enforcement agencies to help them identify and evaluate the types of data they are storing in their systems. Such guidance would have included the necessary security requirements agencies should follow to protect the data in their ALPR systems. This bill died in the Assembly.
SB 210 (Wiener, 2021) would have required Justice to develop and issue guidance, which would include necessary security requirements agencies should follow, to help local law enforcement agencies identify and evaluate the types of data they are currently storing in their ALPR database systems. This bill died in the Senate.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: February 2022
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Legislation Proposed But Not Enacted
Description of Legislative Action
SB 210 (Weiner) would require Justice to develop and issue guidance to help local law enforcement agencies identify and evaluate the types of data they are currently storing in their ALPR database systems.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: February 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Legislation Introduced
Description of Legislative Action
SB 1143 would require Justice to develop and issue guidance to help local law enforcement agencies identify and evaluate the types of data they are currently storing in their ALPR database systems.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: August 2020
