ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Alexandria’s public license plate reader page began showing two things Tuesday that it did not show a day earlier: the number of searches run over the past 30 days, and the full list of law enforcement agencies allowed to search the city’s cameras.
The list runs to 161 agencies. All of them are Virginia entities. No federal agency appears on it, and no out-of-state department.
Two days earlier, Mayor Alyia Gaskins said she had asked Police Chief Tarrick McGuire and City Manager James Parajon to publish exactly that information, along with camera locations, and to switch on a set of new privacy controls announced last week by Flock Safety, the company behind the 61 cameras the Police Department operates…