Local police use of vast license plate database raises privacy concern

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Local police use of vast license plate database raises privacy concern

By Eric Dexheimer and Tony Plohetski – American-Statesman Staff 19

Posted: 3:28 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016

While Texas police departments may adopt policies, the state currently has no laws limiting license plate readers. Rep. Matt Rinaldi, R-Irving, last year introduced a bill that would have limited law enforcement agencies to keeping the images for only a week. He said he wrote the bill after hearing of police organizations intending to keep the pictures on file for two or three decades.