In a blowout vote last week, Democrats and Republicans on Louisville Metro Council agreed with police officials that local residents shouldn’t be told where the city’s license plate reader cameras are watching them.
Louisville Metro Police Department officials say the city’s fleet of more than 200 license plate readers, mostly provided by the business Flock Safety, helps them do things like find stolen cars and suspects in serious crimes. They’ve said revealing the locations could help people avoid detection and make the cameras more vulnerable to being purposefully damaged.
The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting requested public records last year that would reveal where the cameras are. But LMPD refused to release them, and Republican state Attorney General Russell Coleman agreed in February that the city could withhold the records…