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The Iowa chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union released a report Wednesday outlining the ways that automatic license plate reader cameras, or ALPRs, are being used across Iowa, and urging state legislators to implement regulations regarding their use.

“Our view is that all of these contracts really do need to be put on hold while the legislature concludes what they’ll do ... so that if these things are used, they are used for appropriate reasons that protect people’s privacy,” Pete McRoberts, the policy director for ACLU, said Wednesday during a virtual press conference about the report.

The report pointed to laws in neighboring states, including Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois, as

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