The Richmond Police Department has shut down its automated license plate reader system after discovering that a configuration error allowed some outside law enforcement agencies to run limited searches of Richmond’s data, the department said in a social media post.
Police said Flock Safety had notified the department that the error allowed external agencies to run very limited, plate-specific searches that could have revealed small portions of Richmond’s ALPR data.
“This was not full-system access and affected only narrow, plate-specific queries,” the department said…