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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2019 - 2020
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | March 18, 2019 04:42 PM |
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| From: | Senator Elder A. Vogel, Jr. |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Automated License Plate Reader Privacy |
| In the near future, I will introduce legislation which provides restrictions on the use of data collected from automated license plate reader systems (ALPRs) and establishes a grant program to assist municipalities in obtaining this technology. The termination of registration stickers on vehicles has brought about technology designed to automatically read all visible registration plates, check it against PennDOT and law enforcement records and detect any plate out of compliance with vehicle registration, and other laws. ALPR’s will continue to become more popular among law enforcement in the absence of the stickers, as it is the only method to detect unregistered vehicles. The provisions in the bill will include who can use ALPRs, how the data can be collected and how long the data can be stored, among other things. Also, the bill will disallow for the use of ALPRs for passive surveillance and not allow the information gathered from ALPRs to be subject to the Right to Know Law. This legislation also establishes a grant program, built upon by a $25 surcharge to Title 75 (Vehicle Code) Chapter 13 (relating to registration of vehicles) violations, which will provide funds to local law enforcement agencies to acquire ALPR technologies. Please join me in sponsoring this important piece of legislation. |