{"id":532,"date":"2016-04-26T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2016\/04\/26\/private-property-rights-license-plate-readers-lesson-from-the-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T22:46:00","slug":"private-property-rights-license-plate-readers-lesson-from-the-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/private-property-rights-license-plate-readers-lesson-from-the-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Property Rights. License Plate Readers. Lesson from the Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How would a county in Texas be able to capture license plate information for the purpose of enforcing minimum libaility insurance statutes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pass a Bill<\/li>\n<li>Give Counties specific authority to use certain equipment<\/li>\n<li>Give counties specific purpose to use the equipment<\/li>\n<li>Specify what the enforcement mechanism will be<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How did we learn this step by step guide to county license plate reader use?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Because of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2016\/kp0076.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">Attorney General Opinion\u00a0KP-0076<\/a>\u00a0that answers \u00a0whether Bowie County can engage a private company to use a license plate reader data looking for vehicles that don&#8217;t have liability insurance?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the AG opinion reference\u00a0a fee splitting arangement?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, the vehcile owner will get a letter from the District Attorney office, and fees will be split 50-50 between the County and the company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can this fee splitting arrangement with automatic license plate readers work?<\/strong>\u00a0No, not without legislation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the statutory solution to make automatic license plate readers ok for counties?<\/strong>\u00a0Counties need specific authority for the &#8220;use of automated photographic or similar technology to enforce the state&#8217;s vehicle financial responsibility laws. &#8221; <em>That&#8217;s the basic bill draft done for you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the Attorney General analysis look like?<\/strong>\u00a0Its a laundry list of all the uses for photo\u00a0enforcement in Texas. The\u00a0highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>statutes \u00a0limit what local government it applies to<\/li>\n<li>statutes limit\u00a0specifically what can be captured by the photgraphic enforcement<\/li>\n<li>statutes limit the\u00a0kind of penalty that is permitted. (i.e. civil or criminal penalties)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How would a county in Texas be able to capture license plate information for the purpose of enforcing minimum libaility insurance statutes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pass a Bill<\/li>\n<li>Give Counties specific authority to use certain equipment<\/li>\n<li>Give counties specific purpose to use the equipment<\/li>\n<li>Specify what the enforcement mechanism will be<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How did we learn this step by step guide to county license plate reader use?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Because of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/opinions\/opinions\/51paxton\/op\/2016\/kp0076.pdf?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">Attorney General Opinion\u00a0KP-0076<\/a>\u00a0that answers \u00a0whether Bowie County can engage a private&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,28,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attorney-general-opinion","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}