The three-year pilot program consists of 40 cameras across the city affixed to light and traffic poles.
Over the past three months, Moulton says fifty stolen vehicles have been recovered with a grand value of $500,000, and 59 people have been arrested.“What happens is the cameras capture the license plate, they run that against a database and if there’s a hit, if it’s a stolen car or related to an amber alert or related to a serious crime, then that’s when we get notified,” said Moulton.
”Schwartz says the readers can be problematic and go too far in tracking where we go and how we live our lives.“When we drive by a plate reader, it captures our plate and it doesn’t just check whether or not we’re wanted on a hot list,” said Schwartz. “It typically stores that data, and depending on the policy, that could be weeks, that could be years.”The El Cajon Police Department contracts with Flock Safety, which stores the data for 30 days, then deletes it.
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