The Enumclaw City Council has given the Enumclaw Police Department permission to spy upon the residents of Enumclaw. People doing nothing wrong, just going about their lives.

The EPD has praised the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) system as being a means to deter crime and apprehend criminals. They maintain the surveillance of the public is for the benefit of the community. The EPD has make a great point to say that the images will be hard deleted after 30 days, so there can be no issue with the system being misused.

To that I say phooey!

The ALPR system works by photographing every vehicle driving along a specific road 24 hours a day. With eight cameras that’s thousands of vehicles per day. No police agency has the manpower to visually scan even a few minutes of those pictures l

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