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Ogden police detail ALPR program, internal controls and 30-day data retention
Summary
Ogden Police presented the department's automated license plate reader (ALPR) program at a Jan. 20 work session, describing 41 cameras citywide (32 focused in a Project Safe Neighborhoods zone), internal 30-day rolling retention of plate reads, access controls routed through the ATAC director and audit procedures. Council asked about federal access and transparency portals.
Ogden 'On Jan. 20, Chief of Police briefed the Ogden City Council on the police department's automated license plate reader (ALPR) program, outlining its history, current deployment and the department's controls for access, retention and auditing.
The chief said the program began with vehicle-mounted readers in 2008 and grew into a fixed-camera system in 2020 as part of a Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative. The department currently reports 41 ALPR cameras citywide: 32 inside the PSN zone (one temporarily down), eight installed in the BDO area through a cost-sharing agreement with Boyer company, and one mobile unit used for targeted, data-driven deployments.
Why it exists: "Criminals don't care about boundaries," the chief told council, describing ALPRs as an investigative "tool" that helps identify stolen vehicles, wanted people and leads for violent and drug distribution cases. He cited multiple instances in which ALPR hits were instrumental, including an interstate kidnapping recovery and…
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