When the Monroe County Legislature meets next month, it will consider a proposal from the Sheriff’s Office to install license plate readers at 85 locations across the county.
But the readers would not be used for routine traffic enforcement, Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Michael Fowler told legislators during a committee meeting this week. Instead, they would be used for operations around things like retail theft and stolen vehicles.
“Just about anything that you can come up with where a mode of transportation is used on public roadways,” Fowler said. “This would come into play, in addition, to all those non- criminal cases, such as our Silver Alerts, our Amber Alerts, missing persons, things like that.”…