Report 2019-118 Recommendation 50 Responses

Report 2019-118: Automated License Plate Readers: To Better Protect Individuals' Privacy, Law Enforcement Must Increase Its Safeguards for the Data It Collects (Release Date: February 2020)

Recommendation #50 To: Sacramento County Sheriff's Department

To ensure that ALPR system access is limited to agency staff who have a need and a right to use ALPR data, Sacramento should ensure that its ALPR policy specifies the staff classifications, ranks, or other designations that may hold ALPR system user accounts and that accounts are granted based on need to know and right to know.

Annual Follow-Up Agency Response From October 2021

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office updated General Order 10/12 (Automated License Plate Reader Program) to specify the personnel that may hold ALPR system user accounts based on a need-to-know and right-to-know basis. The personnel authorized to have ALPR user accounts are sworn personnel assigned to an enforcement position, professional staff assigned to investigative functions, and other personnel approved on an individual basis by the Field Support Division Commander.

California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Fully Implemented

1-Year Agency Response

As of April 20, 2021, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department had not provided a response on the recommendations in this audit.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Pending

6-Month Agency Response

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department did not provide a six-month response to this recommendation.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Pending

60-Day Agency Response

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department did not provide a 60-day response.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending

All Recommendations in 2019-118

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.