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Kootenai County OKs one-year ALPR software amendment with 30-day data-retention limit
Summary
The Kootenai County Board of Commissioners approved a one-year amendment to a Motorola license-plate reader software agreement on March 11, 2025, setting a 30-day retention period for most ALPR data and authorizing the sheriff's office to use mobile readers for short-term investigative purposes. The vote was 2-1.
Kootenai County commissioners voted March 11 to approve an amendment to the county's automated license-plate reader (ALPR) software contract with Motorola, adopting a one-year term and limiting routine ALPR data retention to 30 days.
The change passed on a 2-1 vote after a lengthy discussion that included public comment expressing privacy concerns. "I definitely see how they can have a lot of benefit for law enforcement but the trend is that once something's in it's never going away," resident Rochelle Addison told commissioners during the public-comment period, urging them to "vote against releasing the funds."
Lieutenant Eric Hedlund of the sheriff's office described the contract amendment as the product of legal review and administrative…
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