"A coalition of high-profile civil-liberties groups led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and ACLU are suing San Jose over what it characterizes as millions of warrantless searches of automated license plate reader data, which it says has put the city in an unprecedented state of surveillance with no meaningful gatekeeping. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, claims that local authorities as well as outside law enforcement are violating the California Constitution by continuously combing, without a search warrant, the hundreds of millions"
"For the plaintiffs who also include the immigrant-rights organization SIREN and the Bay Area chapter of the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations that amounts to virtually unchecked retrospective monitoring of people's movements in Northern California's largest city, and the litigation is aimed at reining it in. This practice violates the California Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches so we're asking the court to declare that these warrantless searches are unconstitutional and order the defendants to stop this practice, EFF staff attorney Jennifer Pinsof told this news organization."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, SIREN, and CAIR Bay Area chapter filed suit against San Jose, Mayor Matt Mahan, and Police Chief Paul Joseph alleging millions of warrantless searches of ALPR data. Plaintiffs say roughly 500 plate-reading cameras capture hundreds of millions of data points annually that local and outside law enforcement continuously comb without warrants, enabling retrospective monitoring of residents' movements. The groups argue this practice violates the California Constitution's ban on unreasonable searches and seek a court declaration that warrantless searches are unconstitutional and an order to stop the searches. San Jose officials previously promoted ALPRs, contracted through Flock Systems, to reduce vehicle-pedestrian collisions.
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