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Senate narrows access to license-plate reader data, requires court orders and shorter retention
Summary
The Utah Senate passed Second Substitute Senate Bill 196, which tightens rules on who can access automated license-plate reader databases and shortens retention for private scanners. Sponsors said the changes balance public-safety needs with privacy concerns.
The Utah State Senate on the floor approved Second Substitute Senate Bill 196, a measure that tightens access to data gathered by automated license-plate readers and shortens how long certain private operators may keep scanned-plate data.
Senator Mark Weiler, sponsor of the second substitute, told colleagues the bill “basically does 3 things.” He said the most important change was procedural: in order to access the harvested data collected through license-plate scanning, an entity would need a…
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