LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — Police departments in Kentucky are testing their ability to keep the locations of automatic license plate reader cameras, also known by the brand name Flock, secret under a change to the state’s open records law.
The change, approved by the General Assembly last year, lowers the threshold police departments must meet to exempt ALPR locations from open records requests. Under the previous law, departments would have to show releasing those locations “would” harm an investigation.
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Now departments must only show that the disclosure “could pose an articulable risk of harm” to an investigation.
According to the Kentucky attorney general, at least two departments, Bowling Green and Elizabethtown, are fighting the release of ALPR locations that were requested by a reporter from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. Additionally, the Winchester police chief told FOX 56 News he believes ALPR locations in his city are exempt from the state’s open records law…