""A person who regularly drives through an area subject to ALPR surveillance can have their location information captured multiple times per day," the lawsuit says. "This information can reveal travel patterns and provide an intimate window into a person's life as they travel from home to work, drop off their children at school, or park at a house of worship, a doctor's office, or a protest. It could also reveal whether a person crossed state lines to seek health care in California.""
"The San Jose Police Department has blanketed the city's roadways with nearly 500 ALPRs - indiscriminately collecting millions of records per month about people's movements - and keeps this data for an entire year. Then the department permits its officers and other law enforcement officials from across the state to search this ALPR database to instantly reconstruct people's locations over time - wit"
San Jose and the San Jose Police Department conduct warrantless searches of stored automated license plate reader (ALPR) records that capture drivers’ movements, associations, and private habits. The city has installed nearly 500 ALPR units that indiscriminately record license plates, producing millions of location records monthly and retaining the data for one year. Officers and other law enforcement across the state can query the ALPR database to reconstruct individuals’ movements over time. ALPR location histories can reveal travel routines, visits to places of worship or medical facilities, and crossings of state lines. Civil liberties organizations have challenged these practices in court.
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