Alameda County sheriff’s deputies pulled Hayward nurse Ann Nomura from her car and ordered her to raise her hands near Hayward City Hall after an automated license‑plate reader flagged her vehicle. Nomura was on her way to work at a nursing home on March 4 when the stop happened, and deputies later confiscated one of her plates. That plate, she says, had been swapped onto her car and was actually tied to a different vehicle connected to an alleged theft.
The stop started with an alert from the county’s automated license‑plate reader system, which matched the plate on Nomura’s car to a hotlist. Deputies then ordered her out of the vehicle over the loudspeaker on their patrol car in front of City Hall. Officers seized the plate they said was stolen, even though…..