San Diego judge denies request for license scans
Source: Associated Press
San Diego judge denies request for license scans
By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press | September 18, 2014 | Updated: September 18, 2014 9:37pm
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge on Thursday tentatively denied a technology entrepreneur's request for license plate data collected on his own vehicle from police scanners, the latest legal setback for advocates seeking more disclosure on vast networks of law enforcement cameras used to track drivers' whereabouts.
San Diego's regional planning agency can deny Michael Robertson's request under California's open records law because the records pertain to law enforcement investigations, San Diego Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal wrote.
Robertson, a libertarian who founded and later sold the MP3.com digital music service, sued the San Diego Association of Governments last year, saying the scanners are ripe for government abuse. The San Diego Police Department, San Diego County Sheriff's Department and eight other local police departments deploy cameras and feed scans into a system that keeps records for up to two years.
The decision came less than a month after another state judge denied a request by the ACLU of Southern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation for one week of records on all vehicles from the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
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