![]() And we don’t know how much each individual ALPRs the police want, so the numbers are still undecided and flexible. That would amount to $1.5 million in just 10 years. ![]() ![]() The police estimated the technology for the system would cost $75.000 to $200,000 the first year, and between $50,000 and $150,000 every year afterward. Also, there was an attachment way at the end of the department’s report of the concerns of the ACLU about the privacy intrusions. This police report talked little of the disadvantages and barely anything about privacy concerns. ![]() It was not the pro-con reports that used to be presented to the council to help members better understand a measure. I read the council-manager report on the desire to have more ALPRs, written by the police department, and page after page talked about the benefits of ALPRs to the community. Sounds great, doesn’t it! In fact, a number of residents are already applauding the proposal to make our city safer (BTW, it already is pretty safe) and give the department more tools to use around town, by placing these readers on police cars, polls at street intersections, or wherever deemed needed. The Palo Alto Police Department wants the city to spend thousands of dollars each year, for an indefinite period, to purchase an unspecified number (10, 20, or?) of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to help them identify stolen vehicles, trace cars involved in crimes and help investigators locate perpetrators once a crime has occurred, according to a report from the Police Department. I moved to Palo Alto in 1979, and have been involved in the community on several nonprofit boards. Born in a small community on Long Island, I attended Middlebury College, graduated from the University of Michigan, got married, had four boys in four years, and then started working. In the late 1990s, I sequentially wrote columns for all three local newspapers here in Palo Alto. I also worked for the State Bar of California as the first editor in chief of "California Lawyer" magazine, and then spent a decade at Stanford involved in public issues affecting the university. I then went to the San Jose Mercury as an editorial writer and columnist. I've been a journalist most of my life, first as a reporter and then managing editor of a Chicago newspaper, followed by a wonderful year at Stanford as a recipient of Knight Journalism Fellowship. My goal with this blog is to help the public better understand what really is happening, and more important, how residents living here may be affected by these local decisions. I know many residents care about this town, and I want to explore our collective interests to help do the right thing. In this blog I want to discuss all that with you. “What we’re looking at is a system where we can brief you better, we can let the media know what’s going on.About this blog: So much is right - and wrong - about what is happening in Palo Alto. “We want you (the media and public) to know what we’re doing,” he said. The chief said police are looking at a system to provide timely updates to the media. Knecht told the CBC he also learned of the flag through media reports, saying it was “a bit of a game changer” in terms of his own thinking about the event. During the events, a CTV cameraman was able to spot an Islamic State group flag in the vehicle used to attack Chernyk. Media first learned of the attack on the officer through police scanner communications. Mike Chernyk with a car and stabbed him before driving a U-Haul truck through downtown Edmonton, striking pedestrians. 30, 2017, attack in which an assailant struck police Const. One high-profile example of how police scanners allow media to report on real-time events is the Sept. Whether or not that’s the intent of the new system, “it’s certainly an inadvertent consequence,” he said. “They will only provide the information that they want to provide.” “This is entirely in keeping, whether purposefully or not, with the overall approach of Canadian police forces to transparency and information,” he added. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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