Several Coralville City Council members made verbal commitments in their latest meeting to reexamine the city’s contract for Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR), citing concerns about current federal immigration enforcement efforts.
They were prompted by a letter from the Iowa Attorney General’s Office stating that part of the city’s ALPR policy prohibiting the readers’ use for “solely immigration purposes” violates state law.
The letter points to Iowa Code section 27A.4, which states that a “local entity shall not adopt or enforce a policy or take any other action under which the local entity prohibits or discourages the enforcement of immigration laws.” It also identifies a page on the city’s website explaining its ALPR policy as being in violation of state law…