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House approves bill curbing law-enforcement use of private license-plate databases
Summary
The House passed Senate Bill 222 to limit law-enforcement access to automatic license-plate reader (ALPR) data held by private vendors to 30 days of historical records; sponsors said the measure closes a loophole while critics urged more discussion about privacy and retention limits.
The Utah House on March 11 approved Senate Bill 222, a measure that narrows how law enforcement may use automatic license-plate reader (ALPR) data collected and stored by private companies. Sponsor Representative McKay said the bill "will close that loophole" allowing private firms to retain long-term plate data and then provide it to police, and that "the minute that they go to sell it or do it or use it for law enforcement purposes, they will only be able to use 30 days worth of data backwards."
The bill, which the sponsor described as…
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