Last month, Sault Police installed equipment to monitor a 'hot list' of who's coming and going from the Sault, but Professor Karl Hele is concerned the automated technology could be misused by police or even hacked
Is the new automated licence plate reader system recently implemented by local police a useful law enforcement tool or an example of police overreach?
The ALPR system installed for the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service photographs the licence plates of all vehicles that enter and exit the city and compares them to a ‘hot list’ of known plates of interest. SooToday reached out to SSMPS on Tuesday with follow up questions about the longer-term retention of non-photographic data from the ALPR but did not receive a response by the time this article was published.
The system has also been put in place without consent of those whose licence plates are photographed, Hele points out. Drivers who wish to enter or exit the Sault have no choice but to have their plate photographed, even those who live close by in neighbouring communities. Hele said he is concerned misuse of the information gathered could disproportionately affect Indigenous people living in neighbouring communities.
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