Public comment urges oversight for ALPR, flags data gaps in crisis-response reporting

Dec 19, 2025

A public commenter asked for civilian oversight of ALPR retention and warned of potential AI profiling, questioned whether the crisis-response dashboard captures unhoused people without phones, and commended the fire department while urging sensitivity to housing and pets.

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During the public-comment period, Jamie Lopez (identified as formerly with the coalition formerly homeless) urged stronger civilian oversight for automated license-plate readers, expressed concern that ALPR text outputs could be combined with analytic tools to create profiles, and warned that vendors and vendors' testing of facial-recognition features in other jurisdictions merit local attention.

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