in Sacramento County Sheriff Cooper
the Electronic Frontier Foundation has
just pointed out that back in 2015
California passed a law saying that
outside of you know specific law
enforcement requests
you know like Hey we're you know here in
Oklahoma we're trying to track a guy who
we believe committed a murder and he's
believed to be in California can you
share license plate information it's
called the automated license plate
readers alprs uh
can you share license plate information
with us that you know might help us
catch this guy or can you look through
your own alpr database and see if you
know he has shown up in whatever
but
the the fear the reason why this law was
passed in California in 2015 was the
concern that for example in the states
that have turned abortion into a bounty
now this happened the law was passed
before this but it was in anticipation
of this sort of thing like in Texas you
know where you can you can go after
somebody with as a bounty hunter
um you know if you think that they left
the state to get an abortion well if
you've got automatic automated License
Plate Reader data and you can know where
that person's car was and whether it
showed up at because these readers are
everywhere they're all over the place so
did that car show up at that abortion
clinic
Bingo you've got your lawsuit or Bingo
if you're in Idaho you know it's a crime
to go out of state or to take take a
minor out of state for an abortion
you've got now the proof and you can put
somebody in prison
and this Sheriff apparently has been
sharing this information this license
this Alpa this automated License Plate
Reader Alper information with people
including Alabama Oklahoma and Texas
they're not with people but with you
know other police agencies
um
one of the uh Adam Schwartz the
electronic Freedom foundations senior
staff attorney said that a sheriff in
Texas Idaho or any other state with an
abortion ban in the books can use that
data to track people's movements around
California knowing where they live where
they work and where they seek
reproductive medical care including
abortions
uh in May the electronic Freedom
Foundation released a report showing the
71 law enforcement agencies in 22
California counties
we're sharing such data which is in
violation of this 2015 law
uh the uh when the Sacramento County
Sheriff's Office was asked about it they
tweeted
um that organizations like the
electronic Freedom Foundation quote have
lied that law enforcement sharing this
information is an attempt to violate
people's legal rights these false claims
are intentional and part of a broader
agenda to promote lawlessness and
prevent criminals from being held
accountable
right
you know I get it there's people on the
right who you know I have a friend who's
just hysterical about cash that you know
cash is going to go away and the
government is going to be able to know
everything you do because you're gonna
have to use a credit card to buy
everything and therefore it's the end of
the world
um I'm not a fan of cash going away but
I'm not hysterical about it particularly
but I get it I mean there are there are
people who are very concerned about you
know these kinds of things that that you
know have kind of moved into the fringes
but I don't think this is fringe stuff
at all
and which is why it's a California law