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El Paso Council authorizes police grant application for license-plate readers after hours of public debate
Summary
After hours of public testimony and questions about vendor terms and data control, the council voted to authorize staff to submit state grant applications to sustain automated license-plate reader (LPR) operations, removing a vendor-specific reference and directing legal safeguards.
The El Paso City Council on April 28 authorized the city manager to submit state grant applications to fund continued license-plate reader (LPR) operations used by the El Paso Police Department, after an extensive public debate about surveillance, data control and vendor terms.
The vote followed a presentation by Assistant Chief Ombberto Talamantes, who outlined the department’s experience with LPR technology over the past year and said the system has aided vehicle-theft investigations, the recovery of stolen vehicles and the identification of suspects. Talamantes told council the department limits access to the LPR portal to trained investigators, uses multi-factor authentication and runs regular audits of…
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