What Happens When ALPRs Are Used Unlawfully By Law Enforcement In Oklahoma?

Wedesday, October 9th - though we were supposed to have guest Julianne Romanello (we lost her to sick kids :-() - Michael and Jenni invited PikeOffOTA's Whitney Mullica to talk about an Interim study by Representative Tom Gann, "Track and Tax, Surveillance Cameras and Warrantless Searches", given to the State Powers Committee, Tuesday, October 15th. 

In this clip, Michael, Whitney and Jenni go over the traffic stop that was played for the State Powers Committee during the Interim study. The clip shows a Texas man being pulled over in Oklahoma for dubious reasons (during the study, Representative Gann said that the officer tells another officer that he didn't in fact pull the guy over for going over the white line, but because his tail pipe was hanging down...) by an Oklahoma law enforcement agent. 

The officer then spends time confronting the Texas resident - now seated in the back of the cruiser - with his comings and goings in Oklahoma, captured by the ALPR affixed to the front of his vehicle. According to Oklahoma law, SB359, automatic license plate readers are allowed to determine whether or not Oklahoma citizens have mandatory auto insurance. 

There are no other authorized use for this software in Oklahoma, yet the data is captured and sent to many places and agencies outside Oklahoma after which Oklahoma has no control over that data. 

In this clip, we talk about what happened to the Texas man and how no citizen should be treated this way by a law enforcement officer - especially while using a camera and software that only have ONE AUTHORIZED USE IN OKLAHOMA. 

Watch this video and see how you would react in this poor Texas resident's place. It is quite unnerving.