In 2015, Democratic Elk Grove Assemblyman Jim Cooper voted for Senate Bill 34, which restricted law enforcement from sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state authorities. In 2023, now-Sacramento County Sheriff Cooper appears to be doing just that.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) a digital rights group, has sent Cooper a letter requesting that the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office cease sharing ALPR data with out-of-state agencies that could use it to prosecute someone for seeking an abortion.
According to documents that the Sheriff’s Office provided EFF through a public records request, it has shared license plate reader data with law enforcement agencies in states that have passed laws banning abortion, including Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas.
Adam Schwartz, EFF senior staff attorney, called automated license plate readers “a growing threat to everyone’s privacy … that are out there by the thousands in California.”
Yep, the GOP has already criminalized interstate travel in Idaho, I’m sure there’s more on the way.
Wtf? My dad used to be a state social worker for “unwed mothers” in Boise before Roe v Wade. He secretly drove teen clients to Oregon, an hour away, when they needed an abortion, and he left it to the girls if they wanted to inform anyone. No parental consent involved.
So Idaho is back to this again? I’m not even going to tell Dad.
Fuck that wolf killing, weed hating, Texas wannabe state.
Fortunately, restrictions on interstate travel like this are flatly unconstitutional and won’t stand up to legal challenges even through our overtly, overtly corrupt SCOTUS.
Unfortunately, I suspect a lot of real people are going to get VERY seriously hurt before that legal challenge happens.