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Crime commission recommends ALPR limits, including 30-day retention and highway permitting by state police
Summary
The commission recommended legislation to regulate automatic license-plate readers, imposing a 30-day data retention period, limits on permitted uses, vendor approval, public posting requirements and a delayed vendor-approval timeline for state highways.
The Virginia Crime Commission voted to recommend legislation to regulate automatic license-plate readers (ALPRs), endorsing a framework that limits use, sets a 30-day retention period and establishes vendor and permitting controls.
Staff described the bill as a regulatory package that would allow law enforcement to use ALPRs for defined public-safety purposes — active criminal investigations, missing or endangered-person cases, investigations related to human trafficking and to receive alerts for wanted persons, stolen vehicles and life-safety license-plate matches — while restricting noncriminal uses and commercial sale of data. The draft requires agencies to adopt and publicly post ALPR policies, produce annual usage reports and maintain an audit trail showing…
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