ACLU Slams SFO’s New License Plate Reader Policy

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A view of the San Francisco International Airport at dusk in in 2014. Creative Commons image by

By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix
The San Francisco International Airport can record the license plate information of everyone who uses its roads and parking garages and it can keep the data on file for more than four years.

The Airport Commission voted last month on a new policy that gives more than 70 SFO employees access to a license plate information database and allows the airport to release the data to the San Francisco Police Department, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.

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