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Lawmakers debate automated license‑plate readers and data sharing with law enforcement
Summary
Committee members discussed automated license‑plate readers (ALPRs), asking whether DOT should be allowed to host law‑enforcement readers on department infrastructure and whether use should be limited to specific purposes; members explored adding prohibitions on facial recognition.
Representative Ben Koppelman reopened discussion of an earlier ALPR proposal after a hearing and described talks with the BCI and Fargo Police Department. He said the committee needed to decide whether DOT should permit law enforcement to place automated license‑plate readers on department‑owned or -operated equipment and infrastructure and, if so, for which purposes.
Koppelman said the narrow request in the drafted language would allow placement for "homeland security, border security, amber and blue and…
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