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Urbandale resident urges council to curb use of automatic license-plate readers
City of Urbandale City Council · January 21, 2026
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Summary
Holly Thayer, speaking during Citizens Forum, told the Urbandale City Council the ACLU has raised privacy concerns about automatic license-plate readers (ALPRs), urging the city to halt ALPR use or strengthen safeguards and clarify whether local data can be accessed nationally.
Holly Thayer spoke during Citizens Forum to urge the Urbandale City Council to reconsider the city’s use of automatic license-plate readers, saying the technology collects photos of license plates ‘‘indiscriminately’’ and can feed growing private databases maintained by companies such as Flock.
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