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The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California urges the Council not to approve

$300,000 for automated license plate readers (ALPR) and surveillance cameras (CCTV) without
fully considering the potential costs to taxpayers and community member rights, and without
adopting enforceable safeguards to prevent misuse.

Installing ALPR and CCTV on Fremonts borders would substantially expand surveillance of the
citys residents and visitors. In diverse communities like Fremont, the risks of discriminatory
targeting are acute. In New York City, weve seen ALPR used to collect the plate numbers of
mosque attendees not suspected of any crime. It is the responsibility of the City Council to
ensure that this does not occur in Fremont.

Before approving this proposal, the Council should require that a surveillance impact assessment
be prepared that identifies the technologies potential impact on the rights of community
members and sets forth the full fiscal costs to the City, including future costs related to personnel
and maintenance.

Additionally, the Council must adopt enforceable safeguards to prevent and address misuse, and
that provide the public with avenues to evaluate whether the technologies are effective at
accomplishing community goals.

The Council must also account for the rapidly expanding capabilities of these technologies. It has
been reported that an ALPR company will begin merging plate data with images of faces.
Alarmingly, the staff report for this proposal states that the CCTV cameras would potentially
capture video [of] the faces of the occupants in cars.



The Council has the opportunity to further city goals in a manner that takes account of taxpayer
dollars and the rights and liberties of all. We urge the Council to withhold approval of these
funds until the above requirements are met.

Press contact: Will Matthews, wmatthews@aclunc.org, (415) 621-2493, ext. 309

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