How much data has been gathered by license plate readers in Texas? Estimated 10 million license plate pictures, with locations, collected by month.
What can be done with this stored license plate information? It can track the location of a vehicle by plotting its sightings by day and time
What’s happening on this legislatively?
- In 2015, Texas bills preventing license plate recording & collection died
- Arkansas & Utah prohibit private companies from amassing license plate data collection
- California permits the collection of license plate data for 60 days, longer if the information is being used in an active felony investigation
- Colorado allows for data retention for 3 years, then the data must be destroyed
- Maine allows license plate readers for limited law enforcement purposes and data can only be retained for 21 days
- Maryland prohibits license plate readers
- New Hampshire allows license plate readers for limited law enforcement purposes
- Tennessee limis license plate data retention to 90 days