Bill > A1880

Introduced Session

This bill imposes certain requirements on the use of automated license plate readers by law enforcement agencies. Specifically, under the provisions of this bill, an employee of a law enforcement agency who uses or accesses automated license plate reader data without authorization is guilty of a disorderly persons offense. A disorderly persons offense is punishable by imprisonment of up to six months, a fine of up to $1,000, or both. In addition, the County Prosecutor or the Attorney General or his or her designee is to conduct an annual audit of every law enforcement agency's use of automated license plate readers and automated license plate reader data to determine if they are being used only for official and legitimate law enforcement business. The bill also requires every law enforcement agency that utilizes an automated license plate reader to submit an annual report to the Attorney General, which is required to contain the following information: 1) the number of automated license plate readers being operated by the law enforcement agency; 2) the number of readings made by the law enforcement agency using automated license plate readers; 3) the number of readings being stored by the law enforcement agency; 4) the number of requests made to the law enforcement agency for automated license plate reader data, including the number of requests that resulted in the release of information; the number of out-of-State requests; the number of out-of-State requests that resulted in the release of information; the number of federal requests; and the number of federal requests that resulted in the release of information; 5) any data breaches or unauthorized uses of the automated license plate reader data; and 6) a listing of the audit of the law enforcement agency's use of automated license plate readers and data. The Attorney General is to issue an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature summarizing the information provided by the law enforcement agencies. Finally, the bill provides that automated license plate reader data is not to be destroyed by any law enforcement agency that utilizes an automated license plate reader. Further, the stored data is only to be accessible to the law enforcement agency during the running of the statute of limitations of the offense being investigated.

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L. Grace Spencer (D)*,  Benjie Wimberly (D)*,  Thomas Giblin (D), 

Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee (on 01/30/2017)