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Audit presentation: police official defends ALPR use, says data kept 30 days; audit flags RIPA data-entry lapses
Summary
An agency official briefed the council on the department’s automated license-plate readers, saying the system captures plate images and timestamps (not faces), retains data for 30 days, and has guardrails against out-of-state and federal sharing; the audit also found some officers failed to enter required profiling data and staff proposed increased audits and corrective steps.
An agency official (Speaker 8) gave an audit-oriented briefing on the police department’s automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) program and related internal controls. The presenter said the town’s ALPR network includes roughly 60 cameras that capture vehicle images and convert them to searchable plate-and-timestamp data, and stressed the system does not perform facial recognition.
“We only store it for 30 days,” the presenter said, describing the retention policy and noting that vendor and…
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