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Austin resident urges police oversight commission to probe police use of license-plate readers
Summary
A community member urged the newly formed Commission on Police Oversight to investigate Austin Police Department searches of automated license-plate reader (ALPR) data and raised national examples of misuse and misreads.
Marina Roberts told the Commission on Police Oversight on June 20 that she is “deeply troubled” by the Austin Police Department’s use of automated license-plate readers (ALPRs) and asked the commission to investigate APD’s searches of ALPR data.
Roberts noted that a one-year city pilot of ALPRs allowed by City Council in early 2024 expired and that the city manager intends to bring a new ALPR proposal back to the council in coming months. She said ALPR vendors such as Flock and Axon largely profit from selling access to aggregated vehicle-location…
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