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Overview and Findings <br />•What ALPR cameras do. “Hotlists” and “hits” alerts. (From NCRIC -Northern CA Regional Intelligence Center -FAQ on CA ALPR’s): <br />•“Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems function to automatically capture an image of a vehicle and the vehicle’s license plate, transform the plate image into alphanumeric characters using optical character recognition, compare the plate number acquired to one or more databases (also known as “hot lists”) of vehicles of interest to law enforcement, and then alert law enforcement officers when a vehicle of interest has been observed (also known as “hits”). <br />•The stored license plate data also provides law enforcement investigators with a pointer system that may help them identify vehicles associated with suspects, witnesses, or victims, and to develop exculpatory information that assists them with focusing their investigative resources. The data also allows law enforcement to connect serial criminal activities that may have occurred in disconnected law enforcement jurisdictions.”