Experts urge water safety as number of child drownings increases in Louisiana It has been a busy season for. The committee agreed to continue the discussion at its next meeting. It’s hard to wrap your mind around that, said Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre. Several states have statutes expressly addressing the use of license plate readers and how long data can be retained. JSheriff Bobby Webre announces the implementation of the Police Priority Dispatch System The Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office is excited to announce the implementation of a third discipline of the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch®(IAED) Priority Dispatch System, Emergency Police Dispatch. An inauguration ceremony for Webre, who has been with the sheriff’s office for decades. In one audit conducted in California, 99.9 percent of vehicle images stored by the Los Angeles Police Department were of vehicles not on any so-called hot list at the time it was scanned. Longtime Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley will retire in January 2019. Some have argued license plate readers could be misused to track individuals who are not involved in criminal activity. Mire is believed to be the gunman who killed LSP Master Trooper Adam Gaubert early Saturday morning, Ascension Parish Sheriff Bobby Webre said during a news conference. "In our society, it is a core principle that the government does not invade people’s privacy and collect information about citizens’ innocent activities just in case they do something wrong," the article continues. "The tracking of people’s location constitutes a significant invasion of privacy, which can reveal many things about their lives, such as what friends, doctors, protests, political events, or churches a person may visit," the ACLU states in an article on its website.
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License plate reading technology has not come without controversy, as some have raised concerns over mass surveillance in public places. Organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, have called for legislation and law enforcement agency policies aimed at maintaining innocent citizens' privacy. We've solved more crime by doing that," Webre said. 'From patrol to investigations to warrants, Major Williams has been protecting and serving the residents of Ascension Parish since 1988,' the sheriff said in a Facebook post. Williams completed his final day of service with the APSO last week. "These cameras are not taking pictures of people inside cars, just getting us a description of a car and a license plate. Robert 'Bear' Williams retired after 34-year career, Sheriff Bobby Webre said. He added that license plate readers have helped solve more crimes than almost anything else in the last two years. "Cameras are not cheap, but they're not as expensive as they once were," Webre said to committee members. The sheriff said everything in law enforcement has changed with technology, pointing to the department's investment in Motorola body-worn cameras, which was announced in late 2020 and rolled out throughout Ascension Parish in 2021.
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Council member Travis Turner said he was in favor of the ShotSpotter technology but was "not too big on" the license plate readers.