If you’ve driven across the Ellsworth Street Bridge lately — and who in Albany hasn’t? — chances are a photo of your vehicle and plate number was recorded and stored for 30 days.
That’s in case you’re a suspected thief and your vehicle is wanted by the police.
I became aware of the camera last month. Somebody had asked in a comment why Albany still had traffic cameras after Eugene and other cities had turned theirs off, and I had answered that those other cities’ cameras were surveillance devices that Albany didn’t have. Which prompted a reader to send me a web link to Flock Safety, a company based in Atlanta that markets “security hardware and software, including automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems.”…