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Perry council hears trial plan for cloud-based license-plate cameras; residents and councilors raise privacy concerns

City Council of the City of Perry · April 28, 2026
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Summary

City staff and an agency representative detailed a trial of cloud-based license-plate-reader cameras intended to aid investigations and share tag data with a regional crime center; councilors and attendees urged clearer public notice, a strict use policy and an audit trail before wider deployment.

City staff and an agency representative outlined a cloud-based license-plate-reader pilot at the City of Perry council meeting on April 28 and faced a sustained discussion about privacy, data sharing and oversight.

The agency representative (speaker 8) described a limited trial covering main roads and parks, said tag information would be retained for 30 days and explained how the system had assisted investigations elsewhere. Citing two recent local examples,…

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