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The department wants to use cameras equipped with license plate readers on 500 streetlights across the city. The board's recommendation on the proposal will go to the City Council.
The department wants to add cameras equipped with license plate readers to 500 streetlights across the city; although the privacy advisory board rejected the proposal, the City Council could still approve it
The city gave itself a year to disclose its surveillance technologies, compile an impact report and decide which tools should stay in use. With the deadline fast approaching, not a single tool has been approved.
A new ordinance requires all surveillance technologies be vetted by September. No tool has made it through the process, and city officials are considering pushing back the deadline
San Diego would be the biggest U.S. city to use cameras and plate readers as part of a single network. But the community will get to weigh in first.