{"id":4801,"date":"2025-10-16T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4801\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:47:09","slug":"clear-lake-city-council-to-consider-automated-license-plate-reading-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4801\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear Lake City Council to consider automated license plate reading cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (KTTC) \u2013 The city of Clear Lake, Iowa is set to take up the topic of purchasing Automated License Plate Reading (ALPR) Cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The conversation is on <a href=\"https:\/\/files.municipalone.com\/clearlake-ia\/files\/documents\/citycouncilagenda09-02-25043249082925pm134.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/files.municipalone.com\/clearlake-ia\/files\/documents\/citycouncilagenda09-02-25043249082925pm134.pdf\">the agenda<\/a> for the community\u2019s city council meeting Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agenda states the city is looking to purchase 11 cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It also states the purchase is included in the 2026 budget. The cost would then be approximately $34,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city states the cameras would only be used to identify license plates for cases like finding missing people and vehicles, not for speed enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa is expressing privacy concerns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-ia.org\/automatic-license-plate-readers-aplrs-iowa\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aclu-ia.org\/automatic-license-plate-readers-aplrs-iowa\/\">on its website<\/a>, stating these systems create databases with location information on every driver who encounters the system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at noon in council chambers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Find stories like this and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kttc.com\/page\/kttc-apps-for-ios-and-android-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">in our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTTC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (KTTC) \u2013 The city of Clear Lake, Iowa is set to take up the topic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4397,4396,4395,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-alpr","tag-automated-license-plate-reading-cameras","tag-clear-lake","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}