In a 4-1 vote, the policy and technology were approved. The system will be subject to the CIMS Camera Oversight Committee.
Brookline's Police Department is getting an automated license plate reader (ALPR), and a civilian committee will be watching the watchmen. The Board of Selectment voted last night, 4 to 1 in favor of the ALPR technology and of the policy Police Chief Daniel O'Leary has been crafting since the discussion began last year. In a separate, unanimous vote, the Board also set the CIMS Camera Oversight Committee in charge of overseeing the use of these readers. An ALPR system uses three cameras mounted on a police cruiser, which read license plates on passing vehicles and uses optical character recognition to compare that license plate with a "hot list" of vehicles for which police may be looking. The technology has a number of uses ranging from …
Last summer's automated license plate reader (ALPR) discussion returns with an updated policy, Selectmen still not quite ready to bring the technology to town.
Last summer's automated license plate reader (ALPR) discussion returns with an updated policy, Selectmen still not quite ready to bring the technology to town.
Despite concerns about the technology, the Brookline Police Department still hopes to add one automated license plate reading device to a police cruiser. The Board of Selectmen last night discussed an updated policy surrounding the use of automated license plate readers (ALPR) to technology, and ultimately decided to hold the debate until a later meeting. Police Chief Daniel O'Leary said that he worked with Town Counsel Patricia Correa to look at the policy first proposed last year, and work with recommendations from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and residents to create a more palatable policy. "We did an almost complete rewrite," O'Leary explained. One change O'Leary noted was bringing the data retention policy from the …
Grahame Turner
10:57 pm on Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The ACLU commended the town for just that in a letter the Police shared at the last hearing: http://patch.com/A-vfr7 Called the town an example for other communities considering the technology. more ›