Opinion: Chula Vista's use of automated license plate surveillance threatens everyone's privacy [Opinion]
, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the English and Chicana/o Studies departments at San Diego City College and lives in Chula Vista.is an organizer and activist for Showing Up for Racial Justice-San Diego and lives in San Diego.New Chula Vista Mayor John McCann and the City Council would be wise to take a crash course in surveillance technology and privacy rights to put City Hall’s legacy of unchecked surveillance programs and broken trust behind them.
The surveillance program used automated license plate recognition, which equips police cars with camera systems that scan every license plate they pass and collect data on each vehicle. That data includes license plate information and a date, time, location and a photo of the vehicle and sometimes driver and passengers. Officers are alerted if the system gets a “hit,” matching a license plate to “hot lists” of vehicles related to investigations.
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