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Hewitt officials outline how license-plate readers work, stress audits and limits
Summary
City staff described a cloud-connected license-plate reader system that captures rear vehicle images, provides real-time alerts tied to state and national hotlists, and retains non-flagged images for 30 days; councilors asked about privacy, verification and regional coverage.
Assistant Chief Chavez and city staff spent the Jan. 5 council workshop explaining how license-plate reader (LPR) cameras operate and how the department uses them.
Chavez told the council the LPR system is a cloud-connected camera network designed to capture images of vehicles and license plates and provide close-up plate images for verification. "It doesn't track the vehicle's speed and we don't use it," he said, adding officers run flagged plates through NCIC and state databases to check registrations, warrants or…
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