Bobby Richardson is the undersheriff of the Kendall County Sheriff's Office in Illinois. He joined the agency as a patrol deputy in 2007 and became undersheriff in November 2019 after assignments in patrol, investigations, training, operations and corrections. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, he earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Aurora University. He graduated from the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy and completed the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association Trilogy program. His assignments included school resource officer and firearms and defensive-tactics instructor.
We have documented 1 statement by Bobby Richardson, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.
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Role at the time: Kendall County undersheriff (R) running for Kendall County sheriff
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Statement summary
Bobby Richardson said the Kendall County Sheriff's Office and many municipalities have license-plate readers and that searching other agencies' cameras should rest on prior permission built on trust between agencies.
“We have several license plate readers at the Sheriff’s Office as do multiple municipalities within the county and throughout the state,
I think that having the prior permission to utilize that search is something that you build with trust, with trust of other municipalities, knowing that your standards and your policies are guided in the best practices.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Kendall County Sheriff candidates debate use of Flock camerasCandidate responses in the full article, in the Flock camera section
Why we used this label
The reference point is whether networked license-plate camera systems such as Flock should exist and be used. Richardson describes the Sheriff's Office's own readers and supports continued use, but says searches of other agencies' cameras should rest on prior permission and cites audits, so he backs the systems with limits rather than without them.
Networked automated license-plate cameras can assemble searchable records of vehicle movements. Candidates and officials disagree over whether to ban the systems, keep them with limits, or defend them as investigative tools. This tracker separates outright bans from narrower restrictions.
