Automated License Plate Readers are being deployed across Minnesota — at intersections, schools, hospitals, and places of worship — by private companies operating under government contracts. Your tax dollars fund these systems. The data they collect on your movements can be retained for years, shared with dozens of agencies, and sold to commercial data brokers. You were never asked. You cannot opt out.

This is not inevitable. ALPR contracts are approved at the local level — by city councils, county boards, and police chiefs who answer to the public. Legislators at the state level can pass meaningful limits, warrant requirements, or outright bans on the technology. None of that happens without constituent pressure.

Here is what works: showing up to city council meetings to raise your voice against mass surveillance. Call your state legislators and tell them to support ALPR restrictions. Share accurate information with your neighbors before they assume these cameras are just traffic tools.

Many cities have already canceled their ALPR contracts due to community pushback.

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