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Resident urges Bellevue to pause new license‑plate reader deployments, citing privacy and cross‑agency data sharing risks
3672065 · June 4, 2025
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Summary
A Bellevue resident asked the council to pause deployment of interconnected license‑plate readers until state or legally binding rules exist for collection, use, sharing and retention of ALPR data.
During the council’s oral‑communications period a resident raised privacy and civil‑liberties concerns about proposed citywide deployments of automatic license‑plate readers (ALPRs) and urged a temporary halt to new installations.
Jay Thaler told the council he had been told there is a plan to install about 70 ALPR cameras citywide through vendors such as Flock or Axon. He warned of…
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