Hartnett Albillar urges Farry to drop plate-reader expansion bill
Bucks County clerk of courts and Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania Senate, District 6
“Pennsylvanians deserve safe communities, but they also deserve privacy, accountability and transparency. Sen. Farry should remove his name from this legislation instead of helping expand a surveillance network that puts enormous amounts of personal data into the hands of Big Tech”
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Bucks County Beacon report on the Pennsylvania Senate District 6 race and Senate Bill 933, which would expand license plate readers on state roads and PennDOT infrastructure.
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Senate Bill 933 would expand automated license plate readers such as Flock cameras on roadways and PennDOT-owned infrastructure; the Bucks County Beacon reports that Farry is one of six Republican cosponsors.
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In the same article, Hartnett Albillar said no Pennsylvanian should have to wonder whether every trip is being logged, analyzed and stored indefinitely.
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Case context: Should Flock-style license-plate surveillance networks exist?
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The reference point is whether networked license-plate reader systems such as Flock should exist and be used. Hartnett Albillar opposes a bill that would expand plate readers on state infrastructure and calls for privacy, accountability and transparency. She does not call for removing existing systems, so her opposition to expansion and demand for safeguards is conditional rather than a ban.
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