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Following inewsource's recent investigation into automated license plate readers, three of the five police departments that were illegally sharing drivers’ location data have since changed to comply with state law. The other two are pushing back.
The police in the two cities are defending their policies and claiming they’re doing nothing wrong.
Five police departments across San Diego County have been illegally sharing location data with agencies all over the US.
The vast majority of data collected from license plate readers are unrelated to criminal investigations. But to members of law enforcement, they’re a valuable tool with countless success stories. To activists, they offer the government an unrestricted view into people’s daily lives.
A Riverside County man says he was held in an ICE detention facility for more than a month, even though he was a U.S. citizen, and now he wants to hold the...