{"id":32925,"date":"2018-05-04T06:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32925"},"modified":"2018-05-06T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:47:38","slug":"va-lp-reader-information-is-personal-information-under-state-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32925","title":{"rendered":"VA: LP reader information is “personal information\u201d under state law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under Virginia law, \u201c[t]he pictures and associated data stored in the Police Department’s A[utomated] L[icense] P[late] R[reader] database meet the statutory definition of \u2018personal information.\u2019\u201d The court can\u2019t tell on this record whether it constitutes an \u201cinformation system.\u201d Neal v. Fairfax County Police Dept.<\/a>, 2018 Va. LEXIS 42 (Apr. 28, 2018):
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The pictures and associated data stored in the Police Department’s ALPR database meet the statutory definition of “personal information.” Code \u00a7 2.2-3801. However, on the record before the Court, we are unable to determine whether the Police Department’s retention and “passive use” of information generated by ALPRs may be classified as an “information system” governed by the Data Act. Accordingly, the judgment of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of FCPD is reversed. The case will be remanded for a determination of whether the total components and operations of the ALPR record-keeping process provide a means through which a link between a license plate number and the vehicle’s owner may be readily made.<\/p>\n

If such a means exists, then the Police Department’s “passive use” of ALPRs is not exempt from the operation of the Data Act under the law enforcement exception of Code \u00a7 2.2-3802(7), because the Police Department collected and retained personal information without any suspicion of criminal activity at any level of abstraction, and thus created an information system that does not “deal with investigations and intelligence gathering related to criminal activity.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See Law.com: Virginia Supreme Court Takes Aim at Random License Plate Scans by Police<\/a> (“‘The case will be remanded for a determination of whether the total components and operations of the ALPR record-keeping process provide a means through which a link between a license plate number and the vehicle’s owner may be readily made,’ Justice Cleo Powell said.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under Virginia law, \u201c[t]he pictures and associated data stored in the Police Department’s A[utomated] L[icense] P[late] R[reader] database meet the statutory definition of \u2018personal information.\u2019\u201d The court can\u2019t tell on this record whether it constitutes an \u201cinformation system.\u201d Neal v. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32963,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32925\/revisions\/32963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}