Sheriff seeks 10‑year ALPR agreement; DA defends tool as critics cite privacy and misuse
Sheriff's staff asked the board to authorize negotiations for a 10‑year agreement to maintain 63 ALPR cameras with a proposed 10‑year cost of $1.7 million. The district attorney described cases aided by plate reads; hundreds of residents and civil‑liberties groups urged the board to reject a long‑term contract over privacy, sharing, and oversight concerns.
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Monterey County's law‑enforcement leadership asked the Board of Supervisors for negotiating direction on a proposed 10‑year agreement to keep an existing automated license‑plate reader (ALPR) network of 63 cameras online. Under the sheriff's office proposal, year one would be provided at no county cost and subsequent years would total about $189,000 annually, bringing the 10‑year projected commitment to roughly $1.7 million while removing a previously proposed 40‑camera expansion.
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