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Who runs license plate readers in Kittitas County?

On the map

0
Verified by us
32
Community-reported

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What we do not know

Kittitas County Sheriff

  • How many cameras $66,500 bought, and where they were installed on the county right-of-way.
  • What the contract says about retention and about who the data is shared with, which the agenda language names and never bounds.
  • Why the item was removed from consideration on 18 February and what changed before 4 March.
  • Whether the Sheriff's Office registered the system with the Attorney General as RCW 10.130 requires.

What license plate readers are

An automated license plate reader photographs every passing vehicle and records the plate, the time and the place. It does not watch suspects. It logs everyone, and the record is usually kept on a vendor’s servers.

How they work, why agencies buy them, and every county we have documented →

What you can do

Civic action

Show up

This technology is bought and renewed by boards, councils and committees that meet in public. We have not yet confirmed where each of them meets in Kittitas County.

Go to the Kittitas County hub →

Personal protection

Protect yourself

Practical steps to shrink your personal data trail. Our guides publish at launch; until then, EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense is the best starting point.

Surveillance Self-Defense ↗