"The lawsuit [PDF], brought on behalf of the Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations - California (CAIR-CA), alleges that the city police department's use of ALPR affords it invasive capabilities to track an individual's location. It cited the police department's 261,711 "warrantless searches" of its ALPR database between June 2024 and 2025 and how the city does not require any suspicion of wrongdoing before carrying out these searches as one of the reasons for the legal challenge."
"The digital rights group further argued that those who regularly drive through areas overseen by the 474 ALPR cameras across the city are exposed to the potential for location tracking through their travel patterns. This, the lawsuit alleges, can "provide an intimate window into a person's life" that reveals where they work, where their children attend school, their places of worship, when and where they attend medical appointments, and whether they attend protests."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California filed suit against the City of San Jose and its police department over alleged abuses of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) technology. The complaint cites 261,711 warrantless searches of the department's ALPR database between June 2024 and 2025 and no requirement of suspicion before searches. The city operates 474 ALPR cameras, enabling travel-pattern location tracking that can reveal workplaces, schools, places of worship, medical appointments, protests attended, and cross-state travel for healthcare. Four cameras sit near reproductive health clinic intersections. The suit seeks to declare warrantless searches unconstitutional while allowing legitimate investigative uses.
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