I did not know about this when I wrote https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-s... the day prior, but one of the things I did state was deleting data (except in the extreme case, like New Hampshire's 3 minute retention), will not prevent abuse. People just do illegal queries over and over again.
Part of the reason I wrote that post is it is better to retain the data indefinitely and have a warrant standard than continue to reduce the time period in which the data is retained.
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I did not know about this when I wrote https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-s... the day prior, but one of the things I did state was deleting data (except in the extreme case, like New Hampshire's 3 minute retention), will not prevent abuse. People just do illegal queries over and over again.
Part of the reason I wrote that post is it is better to retain the data indefinitely and have a warrant standard than continue to reduce the time period in which the data is retained.