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Today, the Institute for Justice (IJ) announced the launch of a nationwide campaign to push back against the arbitrary and unrestrained use of automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras in thousands of American communities. The Plate Privacy Project will combine IJ’s litigation, legislation, activism, and media capabilities in the fight against warrantless mass surveillance.

https://www.plateprivacy.com

“The Fourth Amendment problems with this unregulated mass surveillance are only getting worse as communities around the country begin using ALPRs or expand their existing surveillance networks,” said IJ Attorney Michael Soyfer. “Nationwide, police are now using ALPR cameras to track the locations and movements of countless law-abiding people who have never been suspected of any crime.”

Thousands of communities around the United States have partnered with private companies, such as Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, PlateSmart, and others, to install ALPR cameras on their roads. Unlike red-light cameras or speed cameras that are triggered by specific violations, these cameras photograph every vehicle that drives by and can use artificial intelligence to create a profile with identifying information that then gets stored in a massive database. Once that happens, officials can search the database for any vehicle they wish, all without a warrant. And departments around the country are automatically sharing data with each other, making it simple for police anywhere to track drivers’ movements. All of this arbitrary discretion threatens people’s privacy, security, and freedom of movement by creating an atmosphere where everyone knows they are being watched and tracked whenever they hit the road.

“Because police don’t need to obtain a warrant before searching these databases, they can search for nefarious reasons or no reason at all,” said IJ Senior Attorney Joshua Windham. “As currently used, these cameras are ripe for abuse.”

There have been reports of police using these cameras to stalk ex-girlfriends, improperly sharing data with federal agencies, and providing bogus reasons for searching databases –and these are just the instances of abuse we know about.

To combat these abuses, the Plate Privacy Project will propose model legislation in state legislatures to protect against warrantless ALPR surveillance, partner with local grassroots activists to help them resist the use of these cameras in their communities, and continue fighting in the courts to strengthen the Fourth Amendment’s protections against this new form of warrantless surveillance. Additionally, the project’s website will provide reliable data for people to learn about the scope of ALPR surveillance in their own community.

Last year, IJ filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Norfolk, Virginia, over its use of more than 170 Flock Safety ALPRs. Earlier this year, a federal judge ruled the lawsuit could move forward, saying that “a reasonable person could believe that society’s expectations [of privacy] are being violated by the Norfolk Flock system.” Also, earlier this year, IJ successfully persuaded a city in Arkansas to move an ALPR that was directly in front of an innocent family’s home. Before the camera was moved, it captured photos of the family’s driveway and part of their front yard every time a vehicle drove by, and also photographed the family every time they left home or returned home. IJ also worked closely with activists in Scarsdale, New York, who wanted to end their village’s ALPR program. The village ultimately scrapped its contract to install the cameras.