ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office met with the county legislature in a closed-door meeting Tuesday night to discuss data-sharing agreements with law enforcement agencies outside New York.
The sheriff’s office told the legislature it has agreements with nearly 400 local and state agencies across 20 states that use the Motorola platform, and those agencies can access data collected in Monroe County. Some of these agencies have agreements with ICE.
The sheriff’s office acknowledged to the legislature that unlimited sharing agreements are not ideal but said the Motorola platform does not allow for certain restrictions.
“The users are audited on a regular basis. You can only search the system if you have a reason. So the sheriff put in place these really thoughtful policies in terms of privacy controls here in Monroe County. So it closed the front door, but then it left the back door wide open to any number of abuses,” Barnhart said.
Monroe County Legislator Rachel Barnhart is pushing for legislation to limit two-way sharing agreements, while making exceptions for cars on hotlists or under court orders.
“So today in Monroe County, there’s not any evidence that ICE has accessed our data. But what we don’t know is the potentially thousands of searches that have taken place of Monroe County data. We don’t know if what they were looking for. We don’t know what other agencies are looking for and if any of those agencies were ICE. So you can’t say that ICE never looked through our system. We can’t say that we don’t know that,” Barnhart said.
The sheriff’s office said its automated license plate readers only capture still images of license plates and passing vehicles and do not use facial recognition. When the system gets a “hit,” the information must be verified before any enforcement action is taken.
From February to September, the sheriff’s office counted more than two dozen times when license plate readers helped with serious crimes such as robberies, stolen vehicles and tracking missing people.
“They have proven that they do good work. The problem here is that these systems that they run on have gotten more and more powerful, and the databases more and more extensive, and the abuses more and more it’s possible,” Barnhart said.
Garrett reached out to the sheriff’s office by phone and over email about how outside agencies use the data collected and he’s waiting to hear back.
The sheriff’s office has a section on its website with information about how it uses automated license plate readers. Click here for more information.
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