Lansing council member pushes to ban license plate readers from public right of way

LANSING, Mich. (News 10) – Lansing City Council Member Ryan Kost said he is working with the city attorney to draft legislation to prohibit the use of automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, in the public right of way.

Kost said the move follows an email he received from Flock Safety sent to Lansing Police Chief Robert Backus, stating that Flock cameras in Lansing were being shared with 141 different organizations in the state.

“We don’t know how this tracking data is going to be sold by the company. We have assurances that they can’t see it, but we lease these from them,” Kost said…

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