A citizens group is trying to build momentum toward getting the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office to remove the Axon automatic license plate readers currently in use in ACSO vehicles.
The updated data available from the Sheriff’s Office had the mobile ALPRs retaining information on 416,885 license plates over the past 21 days, an average of 19,852 per day – which would work out to more than 7.2 million for a calendar year, at that pace.
The readers led to 47 “hotlist hits” – the terminology for a plate matching a record on a law enforcement database for vehicles of interest.
That’s a success rate of 0.01 percent.
The citizens group, LiveFreeVA, is trying to get people interested in the topic of mass surveillance to attend the next scheduled Augusta County Board of Supervisors meeting, on Wednesday, Oct. 14.
LiveFreeVA also wants to begin pressuring the City of Staunton on the issue, and is trying to organize a turnout for the next scheduled Staunton City Council meeting, which is this week, on Thursday.
The group has organized two Facebook events with details:
- Staunton City Council meeting: click here
- Augusta County Board of Supervisors meeting: click here
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