L.A. Police: Photo Capture of License Plates is not public information

[Rikurzhen]

Here we have cops driving around LA on patrol and their cars are equipped with automatic license plate readers which scan the plate of every vehicle the police car passes. They're building a massive database which can isolate where vehicles were at any particular time if they were within sight of a police car.

None of this information is the public's business:

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge will not force local law enforcement to release a week’s worth of all captured automated license plate reader (ALPR, also known as LPR) data to two activist groups that had sued for the release of the information, according to a decision issued on Thursday.
In May 2013, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) in an attempt to compel the agencies to release a week’s worth of LPR data from a certain week in August 2012. The organizations have not determined yet whether they will file an appeal.

The organizations had claimed that these agencies were required to disclose the data under the California Public Records Act. In late July 2012, the ACLU and its affiliates sent requests to local police departments and state agencies across 38 states to request information on how LPRs are used.​