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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Minneapolis police want to limit access to license
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Thu Nov 1 21:43:09 2012
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 18:32:37 -0700
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Minneapolis police want to limit access to license plate camera data
http://j.mp/Pq2ynV (ars technica)
"A Minneapolis municipal committee is now advocating on behalf of local
police for a change in Minnesota's state law concerning the right to
access data collected from license plate readers (LPRs). For now, the
city maintains a massive database collected from its 11 LPR readers
that hold each license plate number seen, along with the corresponding
GPS location data, date and time for the previous 90 days. In a
meeting Thursday, the Committee of the Whole Agenda heard discussions
regarding a new proposal from the city police department that would
restrict access to license plate reader records. Under the proposed
rules, only the police would have access to the entire database, and a
non-police individual would only be able to access the data that
pertained to his or her car. Currently, a rather liberal open records
state law known as the Data Practices Act makes all government data
public by default. If approved by the Minneapolis city council, such
changes could be put forward to the sate legislature as soon as next
year."
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