Council votes to invite Electronic Frontier Foundation and request data analysis on license-plate readers
Sep 23, 2026
After lengthy public debate, the council directed the city manager to seek a presentation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and to return a scope of work and fiscal estimate for an independent statistical analysis of Richmond's ALPR (license-plate reader) data, with a target of returning the scope by Oct. 6, subject to availability.
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Richmond City Council on Sept. 22 voted to direct the city manager to arrange an independent presentation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on the effectiveness, limitations and impacts of automated license-plate readers (ALPRs), and to bring back a scope of work and fiscal estimate for a third-party statistical analysis of Richmond data on ALPR effectiveness.
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