Section 2413 Of Article 3. Powers And Duties From California Vehicle Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 3.
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. (a) The Commissioner of the California Highway Patrol is
designated as the Statewide Vehicle Theft Investigation and
Apprehension Coordinator. The commissioner may establish vehicle
theft prevention, investigation, and apprehension programs. The
commissioner may assist local, state, and federal law enforcement
agencies by coordinating multijurisdictional vehicle theft
investigations and may establish programs to improve the ability of
law enforcement to combat vehicle theft.
(b) The Department of the California Highway Patrol may retain
license plate data captured by a license plate reader (LPR) for no
more than 60 days, except in circumstances when the data is being
used as evidence or for all felonies being investigated, including,
but not limited to, auto theft, homicides, kidnaping, burglaries,
elder and juvenile abductions, Amber Alerts, and Blue Alerts.
(c) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall not sell
LPR data for any purpose and shall not make the data available to an
agency that is not a law enforcement agency or an individual who is
not a law enforcement officer. The data may be used by a law
enforcement agency only for purposes of locating vehicles or persons
when either are reasonably suspected of being involved in the
commission of a public offense.
(d) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall monitor
internal use of the LPR data to prevent unauthorized use.
(e) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall, as a
part of the annual automobile theft report submitted to the
Legislature pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 10901, report the
LPR practices and usage, including the number of LPR data
disclosures, a record of the agencies to which data was disclosed and
for what purpose, and any changes in policy that affect privacy
concerns.