01/21/2025
by Jack Kessler
"The Amarillo police department began using license plate readers back in July 2021."
"“Chief Martin Birkenfeld wanted to get, make a 20th-century police department that was fighting 21st-century crime, a 21st-century department fighting 21st-century crime. He was the one who brought in the idea of the technology to work together to give our guys the tools so they can make Amarillo safe..."
"Chadwick said these cameras conduct about 12 million plate reads every 30 days"
"“Our policy on retention for LPR data is 180 days, which is six months but, to be honest with you, it’s too expensive to keep that much data, so flock safety only allows 30, you can buy more retention, but it’s so expensive that we choose not to, so it’s like the idea of a DVR, after 30 days, day 31 it falls off and it is deleted and purged…We have an agreement with Flock Safety that they will not use or sell our data and that it will be purged after 31 days"
11/15/24
by Rep Brian Harrison
Caption Text: Relating to the use of automatic license plate readers by a law enforcement agency.
See also HB 3999 in 87R (same).
09/04/2024
by NewsChannel 10
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